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The
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology B.S. degree
is offered through a collaboration of the departments
of Chemistry and Biological Sciences.
The
program meets the guidelines set by the BIO2010 report
(National Research Council of the National Academies,
2003) and the American Society for Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology (ASBMB) in having a strong basis
in quantitative and physical sciences. Graduates will
be prepared for technical and research positions in
industry, particularly biomedical, pharmaceutical
and agricultural sciences, and for advanced study
in biochemistry, molecular biology, or health sciences.
Students
will choose one of two complementary approaches to
study this field by selecting a concentration in Chemistry
or a concentration in Biological Sciences. All students
in this B.S. program take a common set of core courses
in chemistry, biology, mathematics, and physics and
an additional concentration in Chemistry or Biological
Sciences.
This
B.S. program recognizes that biochemistry and molecular
biology represent a melding of basic biology and chemistry
concepts that truly integrates the topics. The subject
can be studied from the perspective of molecular concepts
that are applied to biological systems, or from a
cellular biochemical process perspective progressing
down to the molecular scale.
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