This year long course offers the student an opportunity to experience the basics of microbiology, human genetics, biotechnology, and exploration of bioethical issues. This Biotechnology course includes career exploration, as well as the history and applications of DNA/RNA technology, molecular biology, bioethics, and laboratory safe practices. This course is supplemented with laboratory exercises and demonstrations that illustrate the basic techniques of biotechnology. Specific topics in genomics and bioinformatics will be included. The laboratory component of this course encompasses biochemical and molecular biological techniques that are routinely performed in research, government, and industrial biotechnology laboratories. The exercises are designed to provide a hands-on context for the topics being presented in the course lectures. Finally, the course concludes with a consideration of bioethical issues relating to this powerful new technology
Course Objectives
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