UV Spectrophotometry in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory at Saddleback College

这个项目的目的是改善马鞍峰学院分子生物学和生物化学课程的实验室教学，这是一所两年制的社区学院。我们的目标受众是计划转到四年制院校的生物专业学生。目前，Bio LC的学生进行蛋白质分离、酶动力学和核酸分离与分析的实验室练习。我们计划增加我们的实验室课程，增加使用紫外线光谱的实验。学生将在酶动力学实验、蛋白质和核酸的测量以及生物分子的吸收光谱分析中使用该仪器。为生物实验室购买这台仪器代表着我们正在进行的目标的下一个阶段，即发展一个配备最新设备和仪器的生物化学和分子生物学实验室的教学实验室。

The purpose of this project is to improve laboratory instruction in the Molecular Biology and Biochemistry course at Saddleback College, a two-year community college. Our target audience is the biology majors who plan to transfer to four-year institutions. Currently students in Bio lC conduct laboratory exercises in protein isolation, enzyme kinetics, and nucleic acid isolation and analysis. We plan to augment our laboratory curriculum with the inclusion of experiments using UV spectroscopy. Students will use this instrument in enzyme kinetics experiments, measurement of protein and nucleic acids and for analysis of absorption spectra of biological molecules. The acquisition of this instrument for the biology laboratory represents the next phase in our on-going goal of developing a teaching laboratory in biochemistry and molecular biology laboratory equipped with up-to-date equipment and instrumentation.