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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