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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

BIOT 6373 - Gamete and Embryo Biotechnology


Credit Hours: 3
Students will understand physiological aspects of mammalian gametes, pre-implantation embryos and their control mechanisms. This course will address utilization of gametes as biotechnological tools for basic research and application in the medical and animal industries. Topics of discussion will include germ cell migration and differentiation, spermatogenesis, capacitation, acrosome reaction, oogenesis, meiosis, oocyte maturation, fertilization, embryo production in vitro and control mechanisms.

Prerequisite(s): None / Graduate Committee Consent