Faculty of Science

Objectives

To build on year three molecular biology with focus on the technology of gene manipulation and analysis and how these techniques can be used to further the understanding of  normal cell function and human disease processes.

Contents

DNA and RNA isolation Techniques, Characterization of nucleic acids; Cloning technologies; Cloning vectors; Polymerase chain reaction; Mapping of the human genome; restriction fragment length polymorphisms; Diagnosing genetic disorders; gene therapy; DNA fingerprinting.