BSc Molecular & Cellular Biology with Plant science

at University of Glasgow

Plant science combines a broad range of approaches to understand and manipulate how plants function in the natural world. Molecular and cellular biology is a fundamental discipline that underpins the study of all living organisms. This is a rapidly evolving and exciting field which combines biochemistry, genetics and cell biology to provide insights to, and explain how, molecular function produces the hierarchy of living cells, tissues and ultimately whole organisms.

Advances in molecular biology have been instrumental to the completion of many genome projects which in turn have led, and continue to lead, to exciting developments in agriculture, biotechnology and industry – for example, understanding the molecular basis of plant growth and disease to plant biotechnology, food security and the use of genetic engineering for vaccine development. Molecular biology is central to all biological processes and now is an exciting time to be a plant scientist.