Biology Essentials Techniques

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This course is designed to introduce students to scientific equipment and biologic systems used in biomedical research. Students, working independently, will develop basic hands-on wet-lab skills, including: use of pipettes, microscopy (brightfield, inverted, stereomicroscopy), DNA gel electrophoresis, UV spectrophotometry, handling of microorganisms, mammalian tissue culture, fruit fly studies, DNA extraction, DNA quantitation, chromosome staining, cell counting with a hemacytometer, and procaryote and eucaryote cell staining. Students will also learn the basics of keeping a lab notebook (recording, reading, and interpreting results).