Unit 6 was an interesting unit. We learned alot about bioethics and biotechnology. Bioethics is important concepts. we Did many labs influenced by the concept electrophoresis. the ethics of medical and biological research. We went over the different ways that doctors use biotechnology to help cure diseases and defects. It has been tested on animals for years, but has just recently been used in small doses on humans. Unit 6 helped us to understand how all this works by teaching us about plasmids, restriction enzymes, ligase, PGLO and other Electrophoresis is the movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field. This can be used for many things, but the reason we did it was to find out which food dyes are the worst for you and contain the most chemicals. I had some strengths in this unit such as being able to find the DNA pairs that match up and understanding that electricity makes the dyes move in electrophoresis. A negative of mine in this unit was my unability to understand the steps in the labs. On one lab i messed up and our results came out differently from other groups. I would love to learn more about how biotechnology can help cure mutations someday. At the beggining of the semester i made the goals to finish all CFUs and do all homework before it is due. I am exceeding on the CFUs, but i missed one homework assignment i didn’t know about. Overall this unit has helped increase my knowledge and made me a better student.
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