Program
Crdts | ECTS | ||
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BIO 101 |
Cellular and Molecular Biology I
Preview of the cell and evolution theory; the chemistry of life; macromolecules; cells and organelles; membrane structure; transport across membrane; endomembrane system; bioenergetics; enzymes; chemical energy metabolism; aerobic respiration; photosynthesis; cytoskeletal systems.
Prerequisite none
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3 | 5 |
BIO 111 |
Prelude to Molecular Biology
Historical development of molecular biology; introduction to current topics in the field such as biotechnology, cloning, and gene therapy.
Prerequisite none
|
1 | 1 |
CHEM 103 |
General Chemistry I
Fundamental concepts of chemistry; atomic structure, periodic trends, chemical bonding, gases, liquids, solids, solutions.
Prerequisite none
|
3 | 7 |
CHEM 109 |
General Chemistry Laboratory
The course covers basic laboratory techniques, identification of some compounds, simple reactions, stoichometric calculations related with reactions, solubility, kinetics and titration experiments.
Prerequisite Must be taken concurrently with CHEM 103 or CHEM 104 when registered for the first time except for chemistry students.
|
1 | 2 |
MATH 101 |
Calculus I
Functions, limits, continuity, differentiation and applications, integration, fundamental theorem of calculus, techniques and applications of integration, improper integrals and series, Taylor polynomials, power series, basic transcendental functions.
Prerequisite none
|
4 | 6 |
PHYS 101 |
Physics 1
Vectors, kinematics, Newton’s laws of motion, work and energy, conservation of energy, linear momentum and its conservation, rotation of rigid bodies about a fixed axis, angular momentum and its conservation. (One laboratory session every week).
|
4 | 8 |
Total: 16 |
Total: 29 |
Crdts | ECTS | ||
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BIO 102 |
Cellular and Molecular Biology II
Cellular movement and mobility; cell adhesion; extracellular matrix; electrical and chemical signal transduction; DNA, chromosomes, nucleus; cell cycle, DNA replication, mitosis; sexual reproduction, meiosis, recombination; Mendelian genetics; gene expression; recombinant DNA technology and its applications.
Prerequisite none
|
3 | 5 |
BIO 106 |
Cell Biology Laboratory
Scientific report writing; light microscopy, gram staining; preparation of buffers and solutions; spectrophotometric measurements; bacterial growth curve; sterile techniques; extraction of DNA; agarose gel electrophoresis; organelle fractionation and analysis of subcellular fractions; transfection of eukaryotic cells; subcellular localization of proteins using fluorescent tags; mitosis; cell cycle analysis.
Prerequisite Corequisite: BIO 102
|
2 | 3 |
CHEM 104 |
General Chemistry II
Fundamental topics in chemistry; thermochemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, solubility equilibrium, electrochemistry.
|
3 | 6 |
HSS | Humanities or Social Sciences Elective | 3 | 4 |
MATH 102 |
Calculus II
Vector calculus, functions of several variables, directional derivatives, gradient, Lagrange multipliers, multiple integrals and their applications, change of variables, coordinate systems, line integrals, Green's theorem, divergence theorem, Stokes' theorem.
Prerequisite MATH 101
|
4 | 6 |
PHYS 130 |
Thermodynamics, Waves, Optics and Modern Physics
Introduction to thermodynamics, oscillations, waves, interference and diffraction, gratings and spectra, quantization of energy and wave behaviour of particles.
Prerequisite PHYS 101
|
4 | 7 |
Total: 19 |
Total: 31 |
Crdts | ECTS | ||
---|---|---|---|
BIO 201 |
Evolution and Biodiversity
Darwinian perspective of evolution, phylogeny, sources of genetic diversity, natural selection, genetic drift, gene flow, population genetics, species concept, history of life on earth, tree of life, animal, plant and microbial diversity, ecology.
Prerequisite none
|
3 | 3 |
BIO 203 |
Biostatistics
Measurements; Data analysis and organization; Biological and Statistical variables; Samples and populations; Descriptive statistics: central tendency, dispersion, standard error, confidence limits; Graphical display of data; Concepts of probability; Probability distributions; Hypothesis testing and inference: exact binomial tests, Chi-square tests, goodness of fit tests, Fisher’s test, Student’s t-test, ANOVA, MANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis test, Rank tests; Regression; Correlation; Contingency tables; Power analysis
|
3 | 5 |
CHEM 203 |
Organic Chemistry Laboratory I
Basic techniques of separation, identification and purification of organic compounds and application of these to simple organic reactions.
Prerequisite Corequisite: CHEM 201
|
1 | 3 |
CHEM 221 |
Survey of Organic Chemistry
Introductory notions of organic chemistry. Alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, ethers, aromatic compounds, aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids. Basic concepts of stereochemistry, substitution, elimination and additions reactions with examples from biological systems.
Prerequisite CHEM 104
|
4 | 5 |
HUM 101 / HIST 105 |
Humanities I / The Making of the Modern World I
HUM 101:
An interdisciplinary humanities survey, designed to introduce students to cultures east and west, ancient and modern which have, over time, impacted and interracted with their own culture, and thus to encourage critical reflection on this wider cultural heritage with emphasis on philosophy, literature, arts, political thought, science and religion. Readings in primary and secondary materials to analyze, compare and contrast ideas, paradigms, world views in ancient, classical and medieval civilizations. 4 credits, 6 ECTS
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HIST 105:
A comparative inquiry into the origins, development and interaction of world civilizations. Exploration of the ancient, classical, Byzantine, medieval, Islamic and early Renaissance past of the Mediterranean region and the Near East; the impact of the early Turkic peoples in Central Asia and the Islamic World; the diverse cultures of South East Asia, China and Japan. Weekly discussion sessions and the study of audio-visual materials required.
3 credits, 5 ECTS
|
4 | 6 |
PHYS 201 |
Physics III
Charge and matter, the electric field, Gauss law, electrostatic potential,capacitance, current and resistance electromotive force and circuits, the magnetic field, Ampére’s law, Faraday’s law, inductance, magnetic properties of matter.
Prerequisite PHYS 101, or PHYS 121
|
4 | 6 |
TK 221 |
Turkish I
Theories of language, the emergence of language and language-culture relationship, Turkish Ural-Altay language family, the language which is the branch of linguistics that special attention should be given to the classification of four basic phonetics, morphology, syntax and semantics in Turkish language sound structure, word structure (suffix, root, trunk, etc.), grammatical topics such as sentence structure and the study of what has been Deciphered Decipherably to be taught during the semester (essays, poems, novels, short stories) are among the objectives of this course among the books of classical and contemporary Turkish authors.
|
2 | 3 |
Total: 21 |
Total: 31 |
Crdts | ECTS | ||
---|---|---|---|
BIO 252 |
Genetics
Genes, genomes and genetic analysis; DNA structure and genetic variation; Mendelian genetics and its applications; chromosomes and sex-chromosome inheritance; genetic linkage; chromosome mapping, human karyotypes, chromosome behavior; extranuclear inheritance, molecular evolution, population genetics.
|
3 | 6 |
BIO 254 |
Genetics Laboratory
Use of restriction enzyme digestion in genetic linkage analysis; Drosophila as a model organism; monohybrid and dihybrid cross; polytene chromosome and karyotype analysis; polygenic inheritance and complex traits; fluorescence in situ hybridization, (FISH); bacterial conjugation and transduction; complementation; candidate gene approach.
Prerequisite Corequisite: BIO 252
|
3 | 6 |
HUM 102 / HIST 106 |
Humanities II / The Making of the Modern World II
HUM 102:
An interdisciplinary humanities survey, designed to introduce students to cultures east and west, ancient and modern which have, over time, impacted and interacted with their own culture, and thus to encourage critical reflection on this wider cultural heritage with emphasis on philosophy, literature, arts, political thought, science and religion. Readings in primary and secondary materials from the Renaissance era to the present to analyze, compare and contrast ideas, paradigms, world views.
HIST106:
A comparative exploration of the political, social and economic worlds of the three major Islamic empires of the early modern age; the Renaissance and the Reformation; the making of the absolutist states of Europe; science and commerce; the English Revolution and the Enlightenment; the American, French and Russian Revolutions of the modern age; the Industrial Revolution; nationalism and imperialism; World Wars I and II; the decline and transformation of China, Japan, India, the Ottoman world, Iran and Egypt in the modern age. Weekly discussion sessions and the study of audio- visual materials required.
|
4 | 6 |
MATH 201 |
Matrix Theory
Systems of linear equations, Gaussian elimination, matrix algebra determinants, inverse of a matrix, Cramer's rule, rank and nullity, the eigenvalue problem, introduction to linear programming.
Prerequisite none
|
4 | 5 |
TK 222 |
Turkish II
Turkish expressing my article, identification, discussion and practical training for expression, punctuation, and Basic Rules of writing, spelling, and composition observed in the composition of students in the techniques of Correction of disorders of the expression and punctuation errors, reports, examples of the types of scientific writing such as articles, lectures and debates to give practical instruction in the oral studies and applications are covered in this section. In addition, the study of the books of classical and contemporary Turkish authors that were Decisively Deciphered to be read during the period (essays, poems, novels, short stories) is also among the objectives of this course.
|
2 | 3 |
XXX |
Computer Eelective
CMPE 150, BIO 48B, or higher level computer elective
|
3 | 5 |
Total: 19 |
Total: 31 |
Crdts | ECTS | ||
---|---|---|---|
BIO 301 |
Biochemistry I
Molecules of life; structure and function of proteins; nucleic acids; DNA as genetic material; flow of genetic information; enzymes; membrane structure and dynamics; membrane channels and pumps.
|
4 | 6 |
BIO 331 |
Techniques in Biological Research
Light and electron microscopy; spectrophotometric techniques (UV and visible absorption spectroscopy); chromatographic techniques; centrifugation; electrophoresis; enzyme assays; use of radioisotopes in biological research.
|
3 | 6 |
BIO 333 |
Biochemistry Laboratory
Determination of pK of amino acids, cell disruption techniques, centrifugation techniques, sucrose gradient centrifugation, dialysis, chromatography techniques, SDS- PAGE electrophoresis; spectrophotometric measurement of protein and nucleic acid concentration; determination of protein amounts by Bradford assay, Western Blotting; thinlayer chromatography; Michaelis Menten kinetics
Prerequisite Corequisite: 301
|
3 | 6 |
BIO 353 |
Molecular Genetics
Chemistry of the gene; DNA replication and recombination; transcription; translation; mutation; control of gene regulation; transposable elements; genetics of bacteria and phages; gene cloning and manipulation.
Prerequisite BIO 102
|
4 | 5 |
BIO 355 |
Molecular Biology Laboratory
How to use databases; primer design; construction of bacterial growth curves; competant bacterial cell preparation; plasmid DNA isolation; agarose gel electrophoresis; Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR); purification of plasmid vector and PCR products, digestion with restriction enzymes, ligation, and transformation; screening with colony PCR; transfection of eukaryotic cells with the vector; microscopic visualization of fluorescently tagged proteins; quantitative Real Time PCR and DNA sequencing.
Prerequisite Corequisite: BIO 353
|
3 | 4 |
HTR 311 |
History of the Turkish Republic I
A general survey of Turkish history from about the mid-19th century until World War II with a particular focus on the early Republican era. A comparative and analytical account of Westernization and Ottoman reform attempts, the struggle for constitution, the economic and social transformations, diplomacy and foreign policy, World War I, the rise of Turkish nationalism, the National Struggle, Kemalist social, economic and cultural reforms in the 1920s and 1930s with special emphasis on the Kemalist principles.
|
2 | 3 |
Total: 19 |
Total: 30 |
Crdts | ECTS | ||
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BIO 302 |
Biochemistry II
Catabolism and generation of phosphate bond energy; glycolysis; TCA cycle; oxidative phosphorylation; oxidation of fatty acids and oxidative degradation of amino acids; photosynthesis; biosynthesis of carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids and nucleotides.
|
4 | 6 |
BIO 308 |
Seminar I
Introduction to understanding and interpretation of research articles in the areas of molecular biology and genetics.
|
1 | 2 |
BIO 310 |
Cellular and Molecular Biology III
Endomembrane system; vesicular transport and sorting; signal transduction (receptors, messengers); cytoskeletal systems and motility; development; stem cells and differentiation; immunology; cancer.
Prerequisite BIO 102
|
4 | 6 |
BIO 322 |
Research Topics in Molecular Biology
Presentations on the current research projects carried out in the Department.
|
1 | 2 |
BIO 342 |
Human Physiology
Homeostatic control mechanisms; nerve cell physiology; central nervous system; peripheral nervous system; muscle physiology; cardiovascular physiology; blood and hematopoiesis; respiration and gas exchange; the kidneys; fluid and electrolyte balance; digestion and absorption of food; metabolism and energy balance; endocrine system; endocrine control of metabolism
|
3 | 6 |
HSS | Humanities or Social Sciences Elective | 3 | 5 |
HTR 312 |
History of the Turkish Republic II
A general survey of Turkish history from the beginning of World War II until the present. A comparative and analytical account of party-politics, social movements and mobilizations; different interpretations of Kemalism, the problems of urbanization, industrialization, and immigration; cultural and ideological changes, Turkey's foreign policy and an overall assessment of Turkey's standing in light of national and international developments.
|
2 | 3 |
Total: 18 |
Total: 30 |
Crdts | ECTS | ||
---|---|---|---|
BIO 403 |
Scientific Conduct
Responsible conduct of research (RCR): Collaborative Science, Conflicts of interests and commitment; data acquisition, management, sharing and ownership, ethical regulations in research involving human and animal subjects, mentoring; Peer review Publication practices and responsible authorship; research misconduct.
|
1 | 2 |
BIO 407 |
Seminar II
Student presentation and discussions of research articles covering various areas of molecular biology and genetics such as development, cancer, genomics.
|
2 | 3 |
BIO xxx |
Department Elective
to be chosen from 400 level BIO elective courses
|
3 | 6 |
XXX |
Complementary / Department Elective
to be chosen from 400 level BIO electives or related subjects
|
3 | 7 |
XXX | Unrestricted Elective | 3 | 6 |
XXX | Unrestricted Elective | 3 | 6 |
Total: 15 |
Total: 30 |
Crdts | ECTS | ||
---|---|---|---|
BIO xxx |
Departmental Elective
to be chosen from 400 level BIO elective courses
|
3 | 6 |
BIO xxx |
Departmental Elective
to be chosen from 400 level BIO elective courses
|
3 | 6 |
HSS | Humanities or Social Sciences Elective | 3 | 5 |
XXX |
Complementary / Departmental Elective
to be chosen from 400 level BIO elective courses or related fields
|
3 | 7 |
XXX | Unrestricted Elective | 3 | 6 |
Total: 15 |
Total: 30 |