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The Biotechnology Century and Its...
Learning Objectives
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After completing this chapter you should be able to:
- Define biotechnology, and understand the many scientific disciplines that contribute to biotechnology.
- Provide examples of historic and current applications of biotechnology and its products.
- List and describe different types of biotechnology and their applications.
- Provide examples of potential advances in biotechnology.
- Discuss how medical diagnosis will change as a result of biotechnology and provide examples of how data from the Human Genome Project will be used to diagnose and treat human medical disease conditions.
- Understand that there are pros and cons to biotechnology and many controversial issues in this field.
- Describe career categories in biotechnology.
- Develop an understanding of some important skills and training required to be part of the biotechnology workforce.
- Discuss hiring trends in the biotechnology industry.
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