Science Education: Biotechnology in community colleges.The Biotechnology program at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College consists of four campuses and four centers: the main campus, located in Perkinston, Mississippi[1]; the Jackson County Campus, in Gautier[2]; the Jefferson Davis Campus, in Gulfport[3]; the Community Campus, a , Jefferson Davis Campus, is designed to prepare students to enter the Biotechnology workforce. The curriculum is designed to allow students a "hands-on" approach to practical applications in laboratory techniques. Upon completion of the program, students will be skilled in laboratory techniques presently utilized in the Biotechnology industry. Techniques mastered during the program include agarose, polyacrylamide and protein gel electrophoresis, DNA sequencing, gene mapping, restriction enzyme cleavage of DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. , recombinant gene technology, cloning, polymerase chain reaction polymerase chain reaction (pŏl`ĭmərās') (PCR), laboratory process in which a particular DNA segment from a mixture of DNA chains is rapidly replicated, producing a large, readily analyzed sample of a piece of DNA; the process is (PCR), reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction “RT-PCR” redirects here. For real-time polymerase chain reaction, also called quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction or kinetic polymerase chain reaction, see real-time polymerase chain reaction. (rtPCR), Southern and Western blotting, analysis of restriction fragment polymorhisms (RFLP RFLP abbr. restriction fragment length polymorphism RFLP restriction fragment length polymorphism. RFLP ), analysis of variable number tandem repeats (VNTR's), DNA fingerprinting for paternity and forensics analysis, protein analysis and bioprocessing. Susan DuBois, Jessica Gentry*, Neil Strickland, Christi Lanham, and Devon Hall, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Gulfport, MS 39507 |
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