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Burns, Kristi L.; Oldham, Charlie D.; May, Sheldon W. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2009
As part of a multidisciplinary course that is cross-listed between five departments, we developed an undergraduate student laboratory experiment for culturing, isolating, and purifying the biopolymer, poly(3-hydroxybutyrate), PHB. This biopolyester accumulates in the cytoplasm of bacterial cells under specific growth conditions, and it has…
Descriptors: Plastics, Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Biotechnology
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Good, Deborah J. – International Journal of Instructional Media, 2004
The goals of this study were to increase communication between student and teachers in the Biotechnology 385 course, especially between the different modules of the course by designing a WebCT site for all four professors in the course, and to determine if the use of Flash animations integrated into the WebCT environment would increase student…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Laboratory Procedures, Animation, Laboratory Experiments