Biotech 1 - Tissue Culture Lab (BIOL 379)

• College: College of Arts and Sciences
• Department: Biology
• Credit Hours: 2
• This course has a lab with 8 hours.

Hands-on technical instruction in both animal and plant cell culture. The term is divided into two projects. Students prepare primary embryo explant cultures from rats, and learn to carry these cells in culture, stain the cell chromosomes, cryopreserve and recover cells from cryopreservation, among other techniques. The plant cell culture project involves establishing both callus and suspension cultures, and carrying out metabolite studies on these cultures. This course meets General Education requirements: Scientific Understanding, Lab. Pre-Requisites:Biotechnology students only. Typically Offered Fall Only