Principles of Biology Laboratory

(1 Credit)

In this introductory lab, you will be exposed to different approaches in modern biology. Each may introduce a model system or a field of study. This lab can help frame your interests and your further study within the Biology Department at NYU. You’ll be pushed to study living organisms at all levels, from their genes and molecules, to their organismal phenotypes, to how organisms interact in communities and with abiotic factors. Because of the scope of the lab, two framing principles are the levels of organization – from the molecular to the ecological – and the techniques used to study each level, and model organisms that are widely used in research labs to understand particular systems.