Students are taught how to manage the laboratory work areas and equipment such as laminar flow hoods, CO2 incubators, microscopes, preservations and storage vessels. The course also emphasises on important aspects of culture practices including tissue culture laboratory management and safety; the sterilisation: of tools, vessels and chemicals. The handling of cultures: cell, tissue, and organ, types of cells grown in culture, media preparation for plant and animal cultures, tissue culture, exchange of germplasms. Importance of tissue culture in agriculture and medicine will be discussed.