Studies how python hearts grow after they consume a meal. Understanding the molecular processes of growth and regression in the python heart could lead to development of therapeutics for heart disease. Students work in groups in the laboratory and generate novel data by using modern molecular biology and bioinformatic techniques to clone and sequence candidate molecules of the python genome. May be repeated once. Prereqs., MCDB 1150 and 2150. Recommended prereqs., MCDB 3120 and 3500, or MCDB 3135 and 3145, and CHEM 4711 and 4731.