BIOTECHNOLOGY

Semester course - 2 credits

Open to: 11-12
Prerequisite: Completion of CHEMISTRY with a C, or approval of the instructor,
or CHEMISTRY taken concurrently Instructor approval necessary if grade
requirement not met.

BIOTECHNOLOGY is a lab oriented course in which students will be made
familiar with basic laboratory techniques as well as some of the fundamentals
found in more advanced procedures currently employed by biotech firms. These
procedures include agarose gel electrophoresis, DNA splicing, gene cloning, and
immunological assays. Students successfully completing this course will have
acquired skills that will make them employable in some of the biotech labs in this
area.