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Explain how a defined change in DNA is made, carried, expressed, and checked, and how that change is put to work in a fermenter, a protein, a pathway, a crop, an animal, or a medicine, under a safety and ethics framework that treats hazard and exposure as things to be judged rather than assumed away.

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Core Learning Outcomes & Competencies

Upon mastery of this comprehensive syllabus, students and researchers are expected to:

✓ Distinguish classical biotechnology from molecular biotechnology after 1973, and state what a defined DNA change adds that selection of a variant does not.

✓ Explain how type II restriction enzymes, DNA ligase, PCR, reverse transcriptase, and oligonucleotide synthesis each contribute to building a recombinant molecule, and state the limit of each.

✓ Compare plasmid, lambda-derived, cosmid, BAC, and YAC vectors by the insert they carry, and choose a bacterial, yeast, insect, or mammalian host for a stated protein.

✓ Explain how a clone is selected, screened, and confirmed by sequencing, and read a plasmid map as a set of functional claims to be tested.

✓ Compare Cre–lox, zinc-finger nucleases, TALENs, and CRISPR–Cas systems, including NHEJ versus HDR and off-target assessment, and separate somatic from germline editing.

✓ Contrast directed evolution with rational design, and explain why a working heterologous pathway is not yet an industrial process, using artemisinic acid as the example.

✓ Compare batch, fed-batch, and continuous culture, and relate primary and secondary metabolites to amino acids, organic acids, antibiotics, recombinant insulin, and industrial enzymes.

✓ Explain Agrobacterium T-DNA transfer, distinguish a commercialised transgenic trait from a genome edit, and apply hazard-versus-exposure reasoning to containment, release, consent, and dual-use research.

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