KIOSC
Knox Innovation Opportunity & Sustainability Centre
Year 12 Biology visit to KIOSC
Last week, the Unit 3 Biology students attended a session at KIOSC, where they applied their knowledge in the lab and modified the DNA of bacteria.
Students were required to perform a range of steps including:
- Cut open a piece of bacterial DNA
- Insert the human insulin gene
- Close the DNA
- Insert the DNA into a bacterial cell
- Inoculate a plate with the bacteria
- Grow the newly transformed bacteria
To determine whether the bacteria successfully took up the DNA, a fluorescence gene was also included. When the newly transformed bacteria were exposed to UV light, they started to glow!
Our Year 12 biology students – future genetic engineers!
Peter Kos & Tess Murnane
Science