Step into the lab and investigate the techniques and principals of genetic engineering.
The advances made possible by genetic engineering are everywhere, from the cloned orchids for sale in the supermarket to the genetically modified bacterial cells used to produce insulin for diabetics. Learn how scientists clone plants and animals and how they are able to move genes from one species to another. Through the use of tissue culture techniques, restrictive-enzyme digestion and bacterial transformation, we will clone plants, cut and separate DNA, recombine it into a new form and insert it into cells. Learn to read a DNA sequence, how our DNA compares to every other species and what makes genetic engineering and molecular biology possible.