Improvement and Enhancement of Laboratory Experimentation inGeneral Genetics

为了让学生在必修的初级遗传学课程中对遗传分析和技术有更有意义的接触，本课程在实验室部分引入了现代分子技术。通过该奖项获得的微量移液器、微型离心机、电源、琼脂糖凝胶仪器、超高速离心机和能够进行复杂数据分析的计算机，将用于向学生介绍酶在分子生物学中的应用和重组DNA分子的创建；琼脂糖凝胶电泳作为分析工具；以及计算机分析经典和分子遗传数据的能力。学生在普通遗传学实验室获得的技能在高级细胞生物学课程中再次得到运用。

To provide students in a required junior level genetics course with a more meaningful exposure to genetic analysis and techniques modern molecular technology was introduced in the laboratory component of this course. Micropipettors, microcentrifuges, power supplies, agarose gel apparatuses, superspeed centrifuges and computers capable of sophisticated data analysis acquired through the award, are used to introduce students to the use of enzymes in molecular biology and the creation of recombinant DNA molecules; to agarose gel electrophoresis as an analytical tool; and to the power of the computer analysis of both classical and molecular genetic data. The skills acquired by the students in general genetics laboratory are utilized again in a senior level cell biology course.