Credit Weight: 0.5 Description: Current technical and ethical issues in biotechnology will be presented and discussed: plant biotechnology and genetically modified foods, mammalian cloning, reproductive technologies, gene therapies, drug development and approval processes, implications of cloning to biodiversity and lateral gene flow, bioremediation using transgenic organisms. Significant preparation outside of class meeting times will be required. Cross-List(s): Applied Bio-Molecular Science 4650 Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
