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BIOLOGY/BIOCHEMISTRY 3711 - BIOCHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Course Description

This course deals with the biochemistry of interactions between animals, plants and microorganisms that occur in the natural environment. Strong emphasis is placed on the role of so-called "secondary metabolites" or "natural products" such as alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids, etc., in the insect-plant, vertebrate-plant, plant-plant and vertebrate-vertebrate relationships.

NOT OFFERED THIS YEAR

 

Lecturer  
  Dr. Robert Ireland  
  rireland@mta.ca  
     
Laboratory Instructor
 
     
     
 
Method Three lecture hours per week.
 
Prerequisites

Biology 2101,and Biochemistry 2001 or permission of the Department

 
Exclusions None
 
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