Performing Practical Work in a Biological Laboratory

Performing practical work in a biological laboratory can enhance the ability of students to bring any theoretical work into practice. Laboratory work is essential to students since it mainly targets accessing their practical competence as well as advancing their reasoning skills. In science the main aims of acquiring laboratory skills and knowledge are to advance in the mastery of science areas, coming up with recent reasoning abilities related to science, improving the practical skills, having a different perspective of nature of science, creating more interest as well as boosting the level of group work capabilities.

In Science and Technology, there are several areas that are usually learned theoretically and they can be practiced in a Biological laboratory and later long become of great importance in everyday life; Meiosis and Meiosis and DNA Biology. Understanding Mitosis and Meiosis in everyday life is very important. The two processes are critical to all organisms in the division of cells i.e. both somatic and sexual cells division. In everyday life through the laboratory skills and information, Researchers can be able to come up with a drug, either a curative or a preventive drug that can be able to alter a specific phase of cell division to inhibit the multiplication of a particular human pathogen for instance Bacteria or Fungi. In DNA technology, several things can be done in the laboratory ranging from, DNA sequencing, polymerase chain reaction, DNA cloning among others. Currently, many researchers are working hard to come up with different varieties of bio-products from microorganisms which are beneficial to human beings, animals or plants. For instance the production of insulin through DNA cloning, Production of insecticide using B.thuringiensis among others.