Engineer Across Life: Bacteria, Yeast & Plants Bundle

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Engineer Across Life: Bacteria, Yeast & Plants Bundle

Name: Engineer Across Life: Bacteria, Yeast & Plants Bundle
Brand: The Open Discovery Institute
Price: 349.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Three organisms. Three different engineering systems. One bundle.

You'll work with bacteria, yeast, and plants using three genetic engineering systems that show up again and again across molecular biology, synthetic biology, biotechnology, and agricultural research.

$349.00 USD

Engineer Across Life: Bacteria, Yeast & Plants Bundle

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Product Details

Genetic engineering is not one technique that works the same way everywhere.

Editing bacteria with CRISPR is a different problem from transforming yeast. Engineering plant tissue requires a different delivery system again. The organism changes the tools, the workflow, the selection strategy, and what happens to the DNA once it gets inside the cell.

This bundle puts those differences on the bench in front of you.

Instead of learning one isolated experiment, you get to compare how genetic engineering actually works across very different forms of life.

Who Is It For

This bundle is for people who want more than a single introduction to genetic engineering.

It's a strong fit for:

Independent biology learners

Biohackers and community labs

Students building practical molecular biology experience

Homeschool science programs

Educators

Makers interested in biotechnology

Anyone who wants to compare multiple genetic engineering systems hands-on

What's Included

CRISPR
Bacteria Gene Editing Kit

Edit bacteria using CRISPR-Cas9.

Work through bacterial transformation, CRISPR targeting, DNA repair, and antibiotic selection using E. coli as the experimental system.

You'll see what genome editing looks like in one of the most widely used organisms in molecular biology and synthetic biology.

Fluorescent Yeast
Genetic Engineering Kit

Genetically modify yeast and observe gene expression in a eukaryotic cell.

Transform Saccharomyces cerevisiae with fluorescent DNA, grow transformed colonies on selective media, and use fluorescence to see the result of successful gene expression.

Yeast gives you a very different biological system from bacteria while still being practical to work with outside a traditional laboratory.

Plant Pigment
Genetic Engineering Kit

Engineer plant tissue using Agrobacterium.

Grow Nicotiana from seed and use Agrobacterium-mediated transformation to introduce new DNA into plant cells and produce a visible pigment phenotype.

The bundle includes the seed version of the Plant Pigment Kit. Live plants are not included.

Shipping & Storage

This bundle contains biological materials and reagents with different storage requirements.

Open the package promptly after delivery and follow the storage instructions supplied with each individual kit.

Some components from the CRISPR Bacteria and Fluorescent Yeast kits require refrigerator or freezer storage after arrival.

Freeze-dried biological materials used in the kits are designed to tolerate normal shipping conditions, so specialized overnight cold shipping is not required for the complete bundle.

The Plant Pigment Genetic Engineering Kit included here ships with Nicotiana seeds and freeze-dried biological material, not a live plant.

International Shipping

International availability depends on the destination and local regulations governing biological materials.

Some countries restrict the import of bacteria, plasmids, seeds, or other biological materials.

If you're outside the United States, or you're unsure whether we can ship the complete bundle to your location, email odin@the-odin.com before ordering.

Customers are responsible for any applicable customs duties, taxes, or import fees.

What You Will Do

Edit bacteria using CRISPR-Cas9

Transform bacterial cells and select edited colonies

Transform yeast with foreign DNA

Observe fluorescent protein expression in yeast

Work with antibiotic selection

Grow experimental plants from seed

Use Agrobacterium to deliver DNA into plant tissue

Observe a visible engineered phenotype in plants

Compare transformation and gene expression across three very different biological systems

What You Will Learn

These are the same fundamental skills that show up throughout molecular biology and biotechnology labs.

CRISPR Editing in Bacteria

Learn how Cas9, guide RNA, and repair DNA work together to target and modify bacterial DNA.

Transformation

Compare different ways of getting DNA into cells and why the method depends on the organism you're engineering.

Selection

Use selective media to distinguish successfully transformed cells from cells that did not take up the engineered DNA.

Gene Expression

See how introduced genetic information becomes a visible phenotype, from fluorescent proteins in yeast to pigment production in plant tissue.

Different Organisms Require Different Strategies

Bacteria, fungi, and plants have very different cellular architecture and biology. Working with all three makes it much easier to understand why there is no universal genetic engineering workflow.

Why These Three Systems?

Bacteria

Bacteria are foundational to molecular biology.

They're used for cloning DNA, producing proteins, testing genetic circuits, developing synthetic biology systems, and studying genome editing.

They're also one of the most direct systems for learning CRISPR-Cas9 experimentally.

Yeast

Yeast gives you access to a eukaryotic cell without jumping immediately into the complexity of mammalian cell culture.

It's used across research, fermentation, industrial biotechnology, metabolic engineering, and biomanufacturing.

Working with yeast lets you see how transformation and gene expression change when you move beyond bacteria.

Plants

Plant engineering introduces an entirely different workflow.

Instead of simply transforming a microbial culture, you'll work with plant tissue and Agrobacterium, one of the most important tools in modern plant biotechnology.

Together, the three kits give you a much broader view of genetic engineering than any one experiment can.

Step-by-Step Protocols

Every kit includes clear, easy-to-follow protocols that guide you through each experiment from start to finish.

Follow the steps at your own pace, and use the notes along the way to check your progress and troubleshoot.

Glow-in-the-Dark Bacteria Engineering Kit Guide Fluorescent Yeast Genetic Engineering Kit Guide Plant Pigment Genetic Engineering Kit Guide

Already Building

a Home Lab?

These kits give you the experiments.

If you also need the equipment and infrastructure to run a broader range of molecular biology work, check out the Complete Genetic Engineering Lab Kit, our full home lab setup with pipettes, centrifuge, gel electrophoresis equipment, biological materials, reagents, and optional expansions for PCR, human cell culture, and plant engineering.

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