Course Description

BI470 Microscopy 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 both of BI238 and BI248 (BI208*), or both BI204 and BI207, or registration status: fourth-year Honours Biology programs.

Exclusion: BI470*.

2 lecture hours, 4 lab hours

DRAFT electronic version updated at 1:45 p.m. January 30, 2003

M. Watson, Editor Course Timetable