Introduction to Recombinant Genetics- Biology 350

Assignment

Read syllabus and respond.

Answer the following questions and turn them into your instructor before you leave today:

1. What is recombinant gene technology?

2. Identify some of the major elements of this technology.

3. Why are you interested in recombinant gene technology?

Due at the beginning of the next class.

Find an article in the popular press (such as New York Times, check online) in which a technique common to recombinant genetics was mentioned. In one paragraph state the issue being addressed by the recombinant technique and elaborate on it.