Genetics and Biotechnology - Brigham Young University - Provo

Genetics and Biotechnology from Brigham Young University - Provo is a Campus Bachelor Biotechnology degree that prepares you for a Science career. The genetics and biotechnology curriculum is flexible and has been designed to meet the needs of individual students with varying scientific interest. Basic requirements include a minimum of 60 credit hours of course work within four general tracks: animal and human genetics; plant genetics; microbial genetics; and biotechnology business (see program MAP). Evidence that this program is achieving its goals comes from the placement of graduates in the life sciences industry, in health professions schools, in law or graduate business programs, or in scientific graduate programs at leading universities in the United States and abroad. Upon the completion of the Genetics and Biotechnology Program our students will be able to: 1. All students will complete a significant portion of the College of Biology and Agriculture core and have a detailed understanding of biology, including biodiversity, molecular biology, genetics , cell biology, physiology and evolution. Courses: Biol 120, Biol 220, Biol 240, Biol 241, Biol 340, Biol 360, Biol 420; PAS 440, InBio 380, or PDBio 362. Unique to the Genetics and Biotechnology major are the following outcomes: 1. Graduates will be able to demonstrate the use of biotechnology (power, ethics, and potential risk) for plant and animal improvement. 2. Graduates will have received hands-on experience working on a molecular genetics project with a faculty mentor that will translate into laboratory proficiency and ability to formulate and empirically test hypotheses. 3. All graduates will have working knowledge of PCR, genetic mapping, gene isolation and cloning, sequencing, and sequence analysis (bioinformatics). 4. Graduates will be able to apply, and understand the relative advantages of genetic markers like microsatellites (SSRs), amplified fragment length of polymorphisms (AFLPs), restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs), randomly amplified polymorphic DNAs (RAPDs) and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). 5. Graduates will be able to explain key concepts in genome organization and structure, assembly of physical maps of genomes, sequencing methods and strategies, genome annotation and bioinformatics, comparative genomics, global expression profiling (microarray analysis) and transgenic plant and animal technology. 6. Students will demonstrate application of bioinformatics software for genetic linkage, evolutionary inferences, and genetic data (sequence and marker) manipulation. Courses: PWS 494R. 7. Graduates will demonstrate ability to summarize the background, methodology, results and conclusions of a set of experiments, as published in a single or multiple related scientific papers, and lead a classroom discussion on them. 8. Graduates will demonstrate proficiency in basic computer programming skills. View more details on Brigham Young University - Provo, UT . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Biotechnology courses.