Abstract: Inquiry teaching strategy is an important way and carrier to cultivate students′ creative spirit and practical ability. To explore the effect of the new teaching method in genetic engineering, the reform was performed, including updating teaching idea, selecting teaching content, using modern technology, setting up independent experiment course, arranging scientifically and rationally bilingual teaching, combining teaching with scientific research, holding course debate competition and establishing perfect course assessment system. It had stimulated effectively the students′ interest in the curriculum and got a great result in our teaching.

Key words: inquiry teaching strategy, gene engineering, teaching reform