TCBES 620 Details

Course:	Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science 620
Title:	Research Techniques in Molecular Conservation Biology
Description:	Major advances in molecular biology important to conservation studies are examined. Molecular techniques that are applied to conservation studies are performed including: PCR, RFLP, AFLP, DNA sequencing, and microsatellite analysis. Data analysis is examined including a number of popular genetics software packages that enable pairwise comparisons of large data sets and the construction of genetic distance matrices and networks.
Credit Hours:	3
Prerequisite(s):	BIOL 357L and BIOL 481L or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Date Updated:	April 16, 2004