Required Units

Total number of units required for major, excluding any required intensive(s): 10

Required Intensive units, if any: .5

Total units required: 10.5

Total Number of Specific Courses Required

• BIOL 107 - Energy Flow in Biological Systems
• BIOL 108 - Information Flow in Biological Systems
• CHEM 125 - Chemical Principles
• CHEM 244 - Organic Chemistry: Structure and Properties
• CHEM 245 - Organic Chemistry: Reactions and Mechanisms
• BIOL 272 - Biochemistry (Same as CHEM 272 )
• BIOC 326 - Biophysical Chemistry or CHEM 350 - Thermodynamics and Chemical Kinetics     
• BIOC 356 - Biochemistry Senior Seminar

Distributional Content Area Units Required

• One Genetics course:

• BIOL 238 - Molecular Genetics
• BIOL 244 - Genetics and Genomics
• BIOL 248 - Evolutionary Genetics

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• One Cell Biology course:

• BIOL 202 - Plant Physiology and Development
• BIOL 205 - Introduction to Microbiology
• BIOL 218 - Cellular Structure and Function
• BIOL 232 - Developmental Biology
• BIOL 323 - Seminar in Cell and Molecular Biology
• BIOL 324 - Molecular Biology
• BIOL 370 - Immunology
• BIOL 386 - Stem Cell Biology
• BIOL 388 - Virology

Intensives

During the senior year, students must elect at least 0.5 unit of Intensive credit (graded or ungraded) from a list of Biochemistry-related intensives offered within the natural sciences or Math, chosen in consultation with their adviser.