COURSE: BSC IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the biotechnology industry.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Sujects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• General chemistry


• Academic literacy


• Molecular and cell biology


• General physics


• Mathematics


• Biometry


• Plant biology


• Information literacy


• Introductory genetics


• Introduction to microbiology


• Animal diversity

Second year subjects:

• Introduction to protein and enzymes


• Carbohydrate metabolism


• South  African flora and vegetation


• Gene and chromosome organisation


• Growth diversity and control of bacteria


• Invertebrate biology


• Lipid and nitrogen metabolism


• Biochemistry in perspective


• Plant biochemistry evolution


• Genetic analysis and manipulation


• Growth activities and control of fungi


• African invertebrates

Third year subjects:

• Biochemistry of proteins


• Proteome analysis


• Biochemistry of nucleic acid


• Genomes


• Gene manipulation and microbes

Careers: biotechnologist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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