The exciting new world of Biotechnology in the 21st century has developed as a result of the convergence of biological, physical and mathematical sciences to solve problems in ways never before imagined.  The breathtaking advance of DNA sequencing is one example of the power of this approach.  In Biotechnology, students are trained in a broad range of basic sciences as the foundation for many important real-world applications based on a core of applied genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry.