Please Click on a Course Title Below to Visit the Class Homepage This course introduces students to the major concepts in the exciting field of molecular biology. Students will first become familiar with the structure of nucleic acids, the basic mechanics of DNA replication and transcription and the genesis of proteins. Throughout the course students will be exposed to a historical perspective surrounding the evolution of molecular biology as a science and descriptions of the original experiments that produced the field's most important "facts". Finally, students will discover the various ways that genes are regulated during the development of multi-cellular organisms such as the fruit fly, nematode, zebrafish, mouse and man.