Matthew's ponderings about the past semester in Intro to Biotech

Over the past semester we have learned everything from bacterial transformations to PCR projects. Everything we have done in this class has lead up to the Magnolia Detectives main cause of experimenting with Magnolia virginiana. The labs that we have done will be valuable experience for the future when I go into the science field. These have taught me how to conduct labs in an actual lab environment with actual equipment. All this experience is allowing us to extract magnolia DNA use PCR to obtain more, and use gel electrophoresis to examine our results. This would not have been possible without the amount of time we have put into this class. I can't wait to continue using my knowledge gained in this class later on in college.

--Matthew