Introduction to Biotechnology is a lab-intensive course designed to teach students laboratory techniques with practical applications and basic concepts in bioscience, especially molecular biology. Students will be exposed to gel electrophoresis, plating and culturing bacteria, manipulating DNA to achieve transformation of bacteria, restriction analysis of plasmid DNA, purification of protein using column chromatography, genomic DNA extraction from eukaryotic cells, and DNA amplification using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), DNA fingerprinting, and gene mapping.
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