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| Code | TAB236 |
| Name | Agricultural Biotechnology |
| Semester | 4. Semester |
| Duration (T+A) | 3-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 4 ECTS |
| National Credit | 3 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Ön Lisans Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | Öğr. Gör.Dr. HAKAN KAVUR |
Course Goal
To explain the importance of biotechnology in agricultural applications
Course Content
Course Introduction; Overview of Agricultural Biotechnology, New Strategies to Replace Antibiotics in Animal Feed, Flowering Genes and Possible Uses in Agriculture, Design, Manufacture, and Bioactivity of Engineered Fusion Proteins, Assessing Environmental Risks of Genetically Engineered Plants, Biotechnology in Potato Production, Applications of Cloned Animals in Biomedical Research, Transgenic Alfalfa to Produce Enzymes for Environmentally Beneficial Processes, Biotech and Food: Personal Choices and Public Policy, Mining the Arabidopsis Genome to Understand Plant Biology, Prion Diseases of Deer (CWD) and Cattle (BSE), Biocontrol of Pests and Pathogens in Agriculture and Forestry, Intellectual property, Economics and politics
Course Precondition
There are no prerequisites.
Resources
Lecture notes of the lecturer
Notes
There are no references.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | Be skilled in explaining concepts and basic definition of biotechnology |
| LO02 | Be able to understand and improve the applications in the area of agricultural of biotechnology |
| LO03 | Be able to learn and use of the role in the plant breeding of biotechnology |
| LO04 | Be able to understand the relationships between biotechnology and plant breeding |
| LO05 | Be able to learn basic knowledge for studies in the area biotechnology and self improvement through following up innovations in science and technology |
| LO06 | Gains knowledge about GMO plants. |
| LO07 | Gains knowledge about the applications of biotechnology in the world and in our country. |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLO01 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the medicinal and aromatic plants that are extensively cultivated in the world and in Turkey, learns about their general characteristics, soil and climate requirements and usage areas. | 3 |
| PLO02 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Can scan resources, report and present about plants on the web (Google academic, pubmed etc.). | 4 |
| PLO03 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns different production techniques and cultivates plants with these methods. | 4 |
| PLO04 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Knows about medicinal plant, aromatic plant, spice plants, dye plants, joy plants | 2 |
| PLO05 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Knows to obtain essential oils and making parfume under laboratory conditions | |
| PLO06 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the production methods of medicinal and aromatic plants in field conditions and realizes the harvest. | |
| PLO07 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the usage of medicinal and aromatic plants in phytoteraphy and aromateraphy | 3 |
| PLO08 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the importance of agricultural mechanization in plant cultivation and the tools used. | 3 |
| PLO09 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Organizes the pictures of plants in the computer environment, enters the data of the parameters used in the field studies into the computer environment. | |
| PLO10 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the importance, benefits and interpretation of plant and soil analysis. | |
| PLO11 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gains knowledge about the biology and systematics of medicinal and aromatic plants. | 3 |
| PLO12 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gains knowledge about the medicinal and aromatic plants that grow in our country and their use in medicine. | 4 |
| PLO13 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gains knowledge about the effects of plant production on ecology. | 3 |
| PLO14 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gains knowledge about the effects of bioclimatic variables on crop production. | 3 |
| PLO15 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gets information about the activities that she can attend on the university campus. | |
| PLO16 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gains information about internship places and applications to these places. | |
| PLO17 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the metabolic activities in plants and the importance of plant physiology in plant production. | 5 |
| PLO18 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Learns how to obtain seeds and genetic modifications of seeds in the production of medicinal and aromatic plants. | 4 |
| PLO19 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns genetically modified plant products and rules about their use. | 5 |
| PLO20 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gain knowledge about the molecular structure of plants. | 4 |
| PLO21 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Have knowledge about vegetable proteins and vitamins of plant origin. | 4 |
| PLO22 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Have theoretical knowledge about production methods based on biotechnology in plant production. | 5 |
| PLO23 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Recognizes dye pigments in dye plants, knows the relationship between textile and dye plants, creates a color range with mordanting, dyes with traditional methods. | |
| PLO24 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Knows how to extract oils from plants and smell test, she can evaluate notes with scents, she mixes oils according to notes in making perfume. | |
| PLO25 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns to protect medicinal aromatic plants with their bioactive substances, to preserve their chemical quality in storage. | |
| PLO26 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the importance, benefits and interpretation of plant and soil analysis. | |
| PLO27 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Prepares chemical solutions, interprets chemistry instrumental analyses. | |
| PLO28 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the pests, diseases and weeds in medicinal and aromatic plants and the plant protection methods used to combat them. | |
| PLO29 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the importance and methods of occupational health and safety in agricultural activities. | |
| PLO30 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the micro and macro nutrients required for plant growth, their function, importance and amount in plants. | |
| PLO31 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Understands the definition and scope of agricultural economy and the place and importance of the agricultural sector in the Turkish economy. | |
| PLO32 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gains knowledge about Soil Properties (Cations adsorption – Anions adsorption – Soil Acidity, soil organic matter, soil structure, soil water, soil color) and soil Formation (Segregation and Fragmentation – Structure (Texture) – Clay Minerals). | |
| PLO33 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns tenses, auxiliary verbs, prepositions in English. | |
| PLO34 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gains knowledge about Atatürk's principles and the history of the revolution. | |
| PLO35 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns languages in terms of language and its importance, the birth, spread and structure of languages. |
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction of Biotechnology | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 2 | Importance of tissue culture applications in plant breeding | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 3 | Protoplast fusion | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 4 | Meristem culture | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 5 | Embryo culture | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 6 | Haploid techniques | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 7 | Somaclonal variation | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | Preparing for the exam | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
| 9 | Genetic markers | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 10 | Marker assisted selection | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 11 | Quantitative trait locus analysis | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 12 | Gene transformation methods | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 13 | Transgenic plants | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 14 | Laws of biotechnology | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 15 | Concern and risks on Genetic Modified Plants | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 16 | Term Exams | Preparing for the exam | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
| 17 | Term Exams | Preparing for the exam | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
Student Workload - ECTS
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Related Works | |||
| Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 18 | 18 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 109 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 4,36 | ||
| ECTS | 4 ECTS | ||