The techniques in biotechnology often use components borrowed from nature and thus show us that we are a part of life working with and on life itself- and that as a part of life, we are a part of nature and not apart from nature. By using components from nature itself many of the applied techniques of molecular biology and biotechnology are in fact quite natural. This is why we say that biotechnology is the way we work with life. As mentioned in lecture 4 about gene cloning and making transgenes for genetic modification, in this lecture we examine more tools and techniques of biotechnology. Understanding these methods help us appreciate their application and inform us to dispel controversies that may arise from not knowing how biotechnology is actually done. In this lecture, we examine gel electrophoresis and the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and their many applications. Also in this lecture we explain the role of Industry in biotechnology and introduce The Biotechnology Stock Project. While this is for the BCH 190 course, you may want to conduct this project on your own. Try your picks of five biotechnology stocks. See the following explanation. The Biotechnology Stock Project. As explained in lecture 6, choose a list of five companies, their stock market ticker symbol (for example-MON for Monsanto Corp) invest $100000 total (fictitiously, of course) in their stocks (for example $20000 for each company), give their price per share and total cost of shares for each ...
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