BIO404 Agricultural Biotechnology
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| Course Code | Course Title | Weekly Hours* | ECTS | Weekly Class Schedule | ||||||
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| BIO404 | Agricultural Biotechnology | 3 | 0 | 6 | Thursday 12:00 - 14:50 | |||||
| Prerequisite | Senior Standing | It is a prerequisite to | None |
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| Lecturer | Mohamed Ibrahim | Office Hours / Room / Phone | Monday: 12:00-15:00 Tuesday: 10:00-12:00 Wednesday: 10:00-12:00 Thursday: 10:00-12:00 Friday: 10:00-12:00 |
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| mragab@ius.edu.ba | ||||||||||
| Assistant | NA | Assistant E-mail | ||||||||
| Course Objectives | The course aims to expose students to the basic scientific evidence and technical aspects of the different disciplines of agricultural biotechnologies (mainly for plants and crops). It clarifies major scientific, ecological and sociological aspects of biotechnology in agriculture and food production. |
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| Textbook | Slater, A., Scott, N., Fowler, M. (2003). Plant Biotechnology: The Genetic Manipulation of Plants. (2nd ed.), New York: Oxford University Press Inc. | |||||||||
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| Learning Outcomes | After successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: | |||||||||
| Teaching Methods | Presentations and Research article analysis. Class discussions with examples. Team assigments. Team presentation that involve real data, summary, interpretation and reporting and Field visits. | |||||||||
| Teaching Method Delivery | Face-to-face | Teaching Method Delivery Notes | ||||||||
| WEEK | TOPIC | REFERENCE | ||||||||
| Week 1 | Plant Genomes: the organization and expression of plant genes | Chapter 1 | ||||||||
| Week 2 | Gene Structure, Transcription and Translation. | Chapter 1 | ||||||||
| Week 3 | Recombinant DNA Techniques: Cloning and cloning Vectors | Chapter 4 | ||||||||
| Week 4 | Recombinant DNA Techniques: Gene Probes and In situ Hybridization | Research Article | ||||||||
| Week 5 | Plant Cell Culture & Propagation and its Application | Chapter 2 | ||||||||
| Week 6 | Plant Cell Culture & Propagation and its Application | Chapter 2 | ||||||||
| Week 7 | Techniques for plant transformation | Chapter 3 | ||||||||
| Week 8 | Vectors for plant transformation | Chapter 3 | ||||||||
| Week 9 | Molecular Markers | Chapter 8 | ||||||||
| Week 10 | Molecular Markers | Chapter 8 | ||||||||
| Week 11 | The genetic manipulation of herbicide tolerance | Chapter 5 | ||||||||
| Week 12 | The genetic manipulation of pest Resistance | Chapter 9,10 | ||||||||
| Week 13 | Genetically modified crop | Chapter 6 | ||||||||
| Week 14 | Science and Society: Public acceptance of GMC | Chapter 12 | ||||||||
| Week 15 | Revision | |||||||||
| Assessment Methods and Criteria | Evaluation Tool | Quantity | Weight | Alignment with LOs |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 | 1,2,3,4,5 | |
| Semester Evaluation Components | ||||
| In term Exame | 1 | 25 | 1,2,3 | |
| Homework | 5 | 10 | 1,2,4,5 | |
| Presentation | 3 | 15 | 1,2,3,4,5 | |
| Quizz | 2 | 10 | 1,2,3,4,5 | |
| *** ECTS Credit Calculation *** | ||||
| Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | |||
| Lectures | 3 | 15 | 45 | Assignments | 5 | 6 | 30 | |||
| In-term exam study | 16 | 1 | 16 | Final Exam study | 20 | 1 | 20 | |||
| Term Project/presentation | 3 | 3 | 9 | Home study | 2 | 15 | 30 | |||
| Total Workload Hours = | 150 | |||||||||
| *T= Teaching, P= Practice | ECTS Credit = | 6 | ||||||||
| Course Academic Quality Assurance: Semester Student Survey | Last Update Date: 02/11/2022 | |||||||||