Health Science Course

Biotechnology

Biotechnology is a lab course designed to introduce learners to the scope of biotech research and product development across many fields. The course covers proper lab techniques and record-keeping with a scientific notebook and various gel electrophoresis methods and restriction enzyme digestion.

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