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MCB 3023
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Principles of Microbiology
3 credits
Offered: Fall & Spring
Microbiology & Cell Science
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Do not delay. UF lists this in critical tracking for 2 majors, and 21 courses sit downstream of it in the prerequisite graph. Pushing it back can push back everything behind it.
Why students take this
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Scheduled in 2 of 81 UF model plans, usually in semester 4 (sophomore year) and part of critical tracking for 2 majors.
Microbiology and Cell Science, CALS
Microbiology and Cell Science, CLAS
Prerequisites
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Usually taken with
Courses UF model plans put in the same semester as MCB 3023.
What it unlocks
21 courses list this as a prerequisite (directly or downstream).
BSC 4434C · Introduction to Bioinformatics
BSC 4467 · Applications and Technologies of Synthetic Biology
FOS 4222 · Food Microbiology
MCB 3023L · Principles of Microbiology Laboratory
MCB 4034L · Advanced Microbiology Laboratory
MCB 4150 · Prokaryotic Diversity
MCB 4203 · Bacterial Pathogens
MCB 4271 · Antimicrobial Resistance
MCB 4304 · Genetics of Microorganisms
MCB 4320C · The Microbiome
MCB 4324 · Computational Genomics and Epigenomics
MCB 4403 · Prokaryotic Cell Structure and Function
MCB 4422 · Probiotics
MCB 4503 · General Virology
MCB 4794 · Analysis, Interpretation, and Visualization of Microbiological Data
PCB 4233 · Immunology
SWS 4307 · Ecology of Waterborne Pathogens
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