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Major in Biotechnology

 

 

Requirements for a Major in Biotechnology

BI 201 or BI 141             Cell Biology

BI 204                           Microbiology

BT 375                          Tissue Culture

BT 376                          Biotechnology

BT 410                          Biotechnology Seminar

CH 120 & CH 121          General Chemistry I & II

CH 201 & CH 203          Organic Chemistry I, plus Lab

CH 210                         Chemical Analysis

CH 410                         Biochemistry I

 

Plus three major electives that include:

Major Electives

BI 203               Genetics

BI 372               Immunology

BI 371               Molecular Biology

BI 252               Radiation Biology

BI 375               Virology

CH 350             Medicinal Chemistry

CH 202             Organic Chemistry II

CH 204             Organic Chemistry II Lab

PY 310             Modern Physics

CH 411             Biochemistry II

BI 341               Mycology

BT 377              Fermentation Technology

BT 378              Bioinformatics

And certain other BI 300 level courses.


In addition, majors are expected to complete the following ancillary courses:

MA 190 Precalculus (may be waived), MA 200 & MA 201 Calculus I & II, MA 150 Statistics, PY 221 & PY 222 General Physics I & II, CS 120 Microcomputer Applications,

EN 252 Technical Writing or EN 253 Business Communications.


Requirements for a Major in Biotechnology and to meet the prerequisites for the Accelerated Pharmacy Program with Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science
(Please see program description on page 56)

All of the courses listed for a major in biotechnology plus:

BI 140               Introduction to Organismal Biology

BI 141               Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology

CH 202             Organic Chemistry II

CH 204             Organic Chemistry Laboratory II


Major in Biotechnology, Concentration in Bioinformatics

The purpose of this interdisciplinary concentration is to prepare students to enter the computer-intensive fields of bioinformatics, computational biology, computational chemistry, and molecular modeling including genomics and proteomics. With the advent of the Human Genome Project, an explosion of genomics information has occurred, and databases such as GenBank and EMBL have grown at a rate that now requires storage, organizing and indexing of the information. Questions of gene expression have led to computational biology, the process of analyzing genomic sequences and to the field of proteomics, the

understanding of protein structure and function. The information obtained by computational biology and computational chemistry is used in the design of new drugs to treat a variety of diseases. Major drug and biotechnology companies are seeking people trained in bioinformatics.

In addition to the requirements for the Major in Biotechnology:

BT 378              Bioinformatics*

CS 140             Introduction to Programming

CS 242             Data Sructures

CS 282             UNIX Systems Programming

CS 265             Database Applications

*counts as an upper division Cellular/Molecular Biology elective.

 

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