Basic Laboratory Calculations for Biotechnology

Product Description
To succeed in the lab, it is crucial to be comfortable with the math calculations that are part of everyday work. This accessible introduction to common laboratory techniques focuses on the basics, helping even readers with good math skills to practice the most frequently encountered types of problems.
Basic Laboratory Calculations for Biotechnology, Second Edition discusses very common laboratory problems, all applied to real situations. It explores multiple strategies for solving problems for a better understanding of the underlying math. Primarily organized around laboratory applications, beginning with more general topics, and moving into more specific biotechnology laboratory techniques at the end.
This book features hundreds of practice problems, all with solutions and many with boxed, complete explanations; plus hundreds of "story problems" relating to real situations in the lab. Additional features include:
Discusses common laboratory problems with all material applied to real situations
Presents multiple strategies for solving problems help students to better understand the underlying math
Provides hundreds of practice problems and their solutions
Enables students to complete the material in a self-paced course structure with little teacher assistance
Includes hundreds of "story problems"that relate to real situations encountered in the lab.
About the Author
Lisa Seidman received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and has taught for more than 20 years in the Biotechnology Laboratory Technician Program at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisconsin.