Protocols

Get your lab coats and goggles on! Pipettes at the ready! Try our GMO Bootcamp protocols below to explore molecular biology and genetics in the lab!

Exercise #11: Bacterial Painting

In this exercise, you will learn use bacteria to create a work of art Learning Objectives At the end of the activity, you will be able...

Jul 19, 20221 min read

In this exercise, you will learn how E. coli cells can be transformed by foreign plasmid DNA. The exercise uses frozen E. coli cells that...

Jul 19, 20222 min read

In this exercise, you will learn to perform a restriction cloning which will allow you to combine two elements from different plasmids...

Jul 19, 20221 min read

In this exercise, you will perform a PCR Cleanup to remove extra material from your PCR reaction so that you can move forward with a pure...

Jul 19, 20222 min read

In this exercise, you will perform a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the cloning region of a given series of cloning vectors....

Jun 25, 20222 min read

Learning Objectives At the end of the activity, you will be able to: Abilities Run a gel electrophoresis and interpret the results....

Jun 25, 20223 min read

In this exercise, you will learn to perform an in lab digest in order to learn how combining restriction endonuclease digestion is used...

Jun 17, 20222 min read

In this exercise, you will learn how to perform a mini-prep in order to extract and purify DNA from cell cultures, and how to use a...

Jun 4, 20224 min read