Overview
Description
Molecular biology, pathogenesis, and control of animal viruses.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed
- at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed
- Junior or Senior standing
BIOL 190A
Corequisites
BCH 405
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing; BIOL 190A.
Corequisites
BCH 405.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Core
CO9, CO13
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate general knowledge of how viruses that infect humans replicate within cells, how the immune system interacts with viruses, how viral infections spread to other hosts, and how viruses are maintained in populations.
- identify and describe viral morphological structures.
- explain how different families of viruses replicate their genomes.
- describe how viruses are propagated, visualized, and studied within a research laboratory setting.
- describe how viruses interact with the immune system and will be able to explain how this relates to acute, chronic, and latent viral infections.
- explain why major viral pathogens like smallpox, influenza, and HIV cause such severe disease in humans.