MCD BIO C142

Design Principles of Biological Circuits

Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Open the requisite map View official UCLA course listing ↗Find on Bruinwalk ↗

(Formerly numbered 142.) Quantitative analysis of genetic circuits that control behavior of biological systems, including prokaryotic model organisms and multicellular developmental systems. Introduction of basic principles of systems biology through specific examples. Application of these principles in designing synthetic genetic circuits. Concurrently scheduled with course C202.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.

Checking the Schedule of Classes…

Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Life Sciences 7A, 7B, 7C, and 107, and Life Sciences 30A and 30B or Mathematics 3A, 3B, and 3C or Mathematics 31A and 31B, and Life Sciences 40 or Statistics 10 or 13.

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured data

all of

all of
one of
- all of
  - LIFESCI 30A
  - LIFESCI 30B
- all of
- all of
  - MATH 31A
  - MATH 31B
one of

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

MCD BIO C142

LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students
- MATH 1Precalculus
STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.