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2022-2023 Graduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

BIOT 6143 - Environmental Biotechnology


Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to examine the role of biotechnology in evaluating, monitoring, and improving the quality of an environment. Clean up procedures for contaminated environments that include bioremediation / phytoremediation will be discussed. The course will focus on microbial removal, chemical degradation, biological waste treatment systems, and removal of toxic metals and radionucleotides from contaminated soil and water using phytoremediation.

Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1105, BIOL 4234, PSCI 4863 and Graduate Committee Consent