<p>
	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}MT_2.png" style="float: right;" />With Geographic Information Systems (GIS), molecular DNA analysis has become and will continue to be a dominant technology of investigation in environmental science and conservation biology for at least the next two decades. Because of the opportunity it provides to investigate the characteristics of plant and animal populations in non-invasive ways, using material from feces, hair, urine, skin and skeletal material, skills in the use of molecular DNA analysis will be at a premium for employment and graduate school admissions, as its applications are both versatile and cost effective. Students taking Applied Biodiversity Genetics will gain a greater, deeper, firsthand understanding of DNA sequences and structures, and the complex mathematical bioinformatics tools used to analyze them, as well as a greater grasp of basic and advanced chemistry in manipulating chemical solutions of enzymes, buffers, detergents and solvents needed to isolate genetic material and replicate it using the technique of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).&nbsp;</p>
