Concentrations

All Biological Sciences Majors must declare a concentration.

The concentration provides students with the opportunity to specialize in a particular biological discipline or, in the case of the General Biology concentration, take upper-level courses from multiple areas in biology.

The departments of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Neurobiology & Behavior, Plant Biology, and Biomedical Sciences participate in the major, as does the Division of Nutritional Sciences.

Concentrations are selected from the list below.

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Animal Physiology

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Biochemistry

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Biodiversity & Systematics

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Computational Biology

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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

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General Biology

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Genetics, Genomics & Development

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Human Nutrition

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Marine Biology

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Microbiology

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Molecular & Cell Biology

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Neurobiology & Behavior

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Plant Biology