The HaloEd Project

A web site dedicated to biotechnology education

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Introduction

Potential Lesson Plan

 

1.   Overview of Extremophiles

      Overview of Halobacteria including their biotechnological applications

2.   Exponential growth and growth curves

      Dilution

      Liquid culture

      Plating

      Antibiotics

3.   Colony morphology

      Genotype and Phenotype

      Motility            

      Gas Vesicles (Microbial Archaeal cell structure)

      Osmosis

      Complementation (Transformation from Vac- to Vac+)

4.   DNA extraction

      DNA purification

      Preparing and running a gel with extracted DNA

5.   Bioinformatics

      Genomics

      Biotechnology

      Patent review

 

Teacher’s nook

Ecology

Role in food chain

Motility

Radiation resistance

Cellular energetics

Physiology

Genome sequence

Bioinformatics

Biotechnology

Patents

Lesson plans

Co-teaching hints

Molgent

FAQ

Further reading

Contacts

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