| Catalog Description |
Principles and applications of biotechnology. Topics include microbial biotechnology, agricultural biotechnology, biofuels, cloning, bioremediation, medical biotechnology, DNA fingerprinting and forensics. |
| Summary |
Ten topical areas correspond to the ten week quarter.
The topics of regulations and ethics will be worked in throughout the course
1) Intro to genes and genomics
* Cell structure, prokaryotes and eukaryotes
* DNA and genes
* Chromosomes and genomes
* RNA and protein synthesis
2) Recombinant DNA
* DNA modifying enzymes
* Vectors
* Identifying genes
* Bioinformatics
3) Proteins as products
* Medical applications, food processing, textiles, detergents, paper making, adhesives, bioremediation
* Protein structures
* Protein production and purification
* Proteomics
4) Microbial biotechnology
* Food products, therapeutic proteins, agricultural components
* Vaccines
* Microbial diagnostics
* Combating bioterrorism
* Biofuels
5) Plant biotechnology
* The history of plants and agriculture 101
* Traditional and biotech breeding
* Transgenic plants and altered gene expression
* Applications of transgenic plants
* Non food products, ethanol
* Global world market
* Biofuels
6) Animal biotechnology
* Animals in research
* Clones
* Transgenic animals
* Protein hormones for more efficient milk production
7) Aquatic biotechnology
* Economics of Aquaculture
* Novel drugs from the sea
* Environmental remediation
8) Bioremediation
* Chemicals in the environment
* Fundamentals of clean-up reactions
* Metabolizing microbes
* Genetically engineered microbes
9) Fingerprinting and forensics
* The technology
* Isolating DNA
* Rules of evidence
* Familial relationships
* Non-human DNA analysis
10) Medical biotechnology
* Detecting and diagnosis of disease
* New medicines, vaccines, and artificial blood
* Gene therapy
* Regenerative medicine
* Human genome project
* Cloning |
