Calculations for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Description

Molecular Biology is the branch of biology that deals with the macromolecules essential to life. Biotechnology involves the manipulation of living organisms to create useful products. Molecular biotechnology is exciting! The tools of molecular biotechnology can be applied to develop and improve drugs, vaccines, therapies, and diagnostic tests that will improve human and animal health. Molecular biotechnology has applications in plant and animal agriculture, aquaculture, chemical and textile manufacturing, forestry, and food processing. Applications of recombinant DNA methods, collectively called biotechnology, are yielding new approaches to disease treatment, drug development, forensics, and even the study of evolution. Bacteriophages have evolved to exploit host bacteria to create progeny phages that ultimately destroy the bacterial target. Once a phage infects a host bacterial cell, it replicates itself, producing many new phages and causing the bacterium to burst, thereby releasing the remaining phages to infect and kill neighboring bacteria. The book begins by discussing the use of scientific notation and metric prefixes, which require the use of exponents and an understanding of significant digits.