2024 - 2025 MCPS High School Course Bulletin

BHP2002B/BHP2002A Molec Biotech B DP

1.0 credit per semester

Biotechnology courses involve the study of the bioprocesses of organisms cells andor their components and enable students to use this knowledge to produce or refine products procedures and techniques Course topics typically include laboratory measurement monitoring and calculation growth and reproduction chemistry and biology of living systems quantitative problem solving data acquisition and display and ethics Advanced topics may include elements of biochemistry genetics and protein purification techniques.

Biology A/B or Chemistry A/B
Chemistry A/B or Biology A/B with Biotechnology
9 - 10 - 11 - 12
No repeats for credit
Double period

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