lifeandbiology – Life and Biology

Biotechnology course

Introduction to Biotechnology

22 May 201922 May 2019

Defining Biotechnology. Biotechnology is the use of biological organisms and processes to produce commercially valuable products. Many of the earliest biotech products made use of bacteria to produce recombinant proteins. …

Principles of Living Systems

DNA Analysis Methods

15 Apr 201915 Apr 2019

For POLS There is one section for this assignment DNA Cloning and recombinant DNA (one video, three essays)

Principles of Living Systems

Biotechnology – DNA Cloning

15 Apr 201915 Apr 2019

For POLS There are two sections for today's assignment Intro to Biotechnology (no videos, one essay)DNA Cloning (one video, three essays)

Principles of Living Systems

Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes

15 Apr 201915 Apr 2019

For POLS course There is one section for today’s assignment with no videos but three essays. Gene regulation in eukaryotes

Discover Biology Lab

Darwin’s Finches

9 Apr 201915 Apr 2019

Lab Handout: Artificial Selection - Finch Beak Lab https://youtu.be/mcM23M-CCog https://youtu.be/9hzWbTpxME8

Under-the-Radar Human Evolution

28 Nov 201815 Apr 2019

Designer babies have been discussed as a possibility for decades. With the recent advancement to genome editing technology referred to as "CRISPR", the discussions about the ethics of have been…

Great Ape Father Figures

29 Oct 201824 Nov 2018

For Evolution https://youtu.be/pYrj-3kMUHw Show notes from this video on YouTube: "At the Senkwekwe Center for mountain gorilla orphans in Congo, a handful of Virunga National Park rangers live around the…

Biology from an Engineering Perspective

22 Oct 201822 Oct 2018

For Evolution Chapter 8 of The Tangled Bank discusses evolutionary adaptations that came about due to different types of mutation. First, if genes are duplicated within a genome, the copies…