Course Description

BI470 Microtechniques I F 0.5

A course on the theoretical and practical aspects of tissue preparation for structural and ultrastructural analysis and for enzyme and RNA localization. Lecture and laboratory activities will include tissue fixation, sectioning, tissue staining (histochemical analysis) and the various ways of examining specimens using the microscope (light, florescence, phase-contrast, dark field, interference contrast optics and electron transmission).†

Prerequisite: Either BI208*, or both BI204 and BI207, or registration status: Fourth year Honours Biology programs.

Exclusion: BI470*.

2 lecture hours, 4 lab. hours

Official electronic version updated on November 10, 2000

M. Watson, Editor