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BIOL 441  Molecular Genetics  Units: 3.00  
Research in eukaryotic molecular genetics with an emphasis on epigenetics. Epigenetic phenomena will be examined in a range of models from single-celled organisms to metazoans, with student discussions on topics as diverse as bioethics, disease controls, and eugenics.
Learning Hours: 125 (30 Lecture, 8 Seminar, 12 Laboratory, 10 Group Learning, 65 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite ([BCHM 218/3.0 or BIOL 330/3.0] and a minimum GPA of 2.0 in the Biological Foundations List). Exclusion PATH 425/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Attain a competent appreciation of current techniques in molecular biology as applied to a chosen problem in epigenetics.
  2. Critically evaluate selected scientific literature and be able to lead discussions on this literature, both in writing and verbally.
  3. Devise a novel approach to further our understanding of a selected epigenetic phenomenon.
  4. Integrate epigenetic discoveries and biotechnology with the ethical concerns of our times.
  5. Integrate epigenetic mechanisms in an understanding of genetic regulation in diverse organisms.
  

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The Biology Department is located in the BioSciences Complex, a large building with offices, teaching laboratories, lecture rooms and extensive research facilities. The Department also maintains the Queen's University Biological Station: more than 3000 ha of woodland, fields and shoreline on both Lake Opinicon and Elbow Lake, 50 km north of Kingston. This station has extensive laboratory and teaching facilities and can provide accommodation for 75 or more researchers and students interested in population and community ecology, limnology, behavioural ecology, and conservation biology.