Laboratory, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced corequisite: course 3. Introductory wet-laboratory designed to prepare students for upper-division laboratory courses for all life sciences departments. Use of wet-laboratory/bioinformatics methods and tools applicable in variety of biological fields, molecular biology, microbial biology, genomic biology, bioinformatics, and psychology. Students conduct inquiry-based laboratory experiments and learn basic wet-laboratory skills to guide them to refine their skills to write their own laboratory reports and to work in groups as team. Letter grading.