BIOL 4500 - Molecular Biology

4 cr. 6 hr. Day course offered every other year. This course may be offered less than once every two years.

The course offers studies of restriction enzymes, plasmids, gene cloning, recombinant DNA, DNA sequencing, oncogenes, and other topics of current interest. Laboratory work includes restriction enzyme digests and mapping, gene cloning, bacterial transformation, blue/white color selection, minipreps, PCR, blotting techniques and introduction to bioinformatics.

Prerequisite(s): BIOL 2800 and BIOL 3250 or BIOL 3450 .