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NST Part II BBS - Zoology

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Zoology offers six Major Subjects in NST Part II BBS. Each major is made up of four modules from the single subject Part II. In some cases there is a choice of modules.

Details of individual modules can be found on the Zoology website.

The BBS Major Subjects are:

Paper 418 Zoology (Cells and Development)
which comprises two Modules chosen from M6, M7 or M8 and a choice of two modules from L5, L6 or L7

Paper 419 Zoology (Behaviour)
which comprises M4, M5, L3 and L4

Paper 420 Zoology (Vertebrate Biology)
which comprises two modules chosen from M1, M3 or M5, and L1 and L3

Paper 421 Zoology (Ecology and Conservation)
which comprises two modules from M2, M3 or M5 and L3 and L4

Paper 422 Zoology (Ecology and Genetics)
which comprises two modules chosen from M2, M3 or M5 and two chosen from L3, L4 or the Genetics module M5 (Evolutionary Genetics)

Paper 423 Zoology (Ecology and Plant Sciences)
which comprises two modules from M2 and M3, or Plant Sciences M3 (Dynamics and History and Future of Vegetation) and L3, L4

Zoology's modules are:

Michaelmas Term

M1 Topics in vertebrate evolution

M2 Conservation Science

M3 Population biology

M4 Neural mechanisms of behaviour

M5 Behaviour

M6 Cell assembly and interactions

M7 From genome to proteome

M8 Patterning the embryo

Lent Term

L1 Mammalian Evolution and Faunal History

L3 Behavioural Ecology

L4 Applied Ecology

L5 Genetics, Development and Animal Diversity

L6 Development : Cell differentiation and organogenesis

L7 Control of Cell Growth and Genome Stability