BIOL 325 - Biotechnology

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FA, alternate years. How and why do we make recombinant DNAs and transgenic organisms? How and why do we manipulate stem cells? How are these and other forms of biotechnology being applied in medicine, agriculture, industry, forensics, and environmental bioremediation? In reading assignments and discussions, students explore scientific, societal, and Christian perspectives of biotechnology-including biosafety, sustainability, patenting, and ethical concerns. In laboratory exercises, students clone human DNA, express it in bacterial cells, and purify the recombinant protein. Lectures and laboratories. Prerequisites: BIOL 161 (or BIOL 141), BIOL 250, CHEM 253 (or CHEM 261 and CHEM 262)