Give your overall impression of the videos. What did you learn about SCID? Is SCID a type of of immunodeficiency or hypersensitivity? Explain your answer. What cells of the immune system are affected if a patient has SCID?
Use standard curve to determine concentrations of Dopachrome in Tyrosinase reactions to determine rate of enzyme activity.
Spectrophotometric Determination of enzyme activity (Tyrosine) Talk to your paired group, decide who is doing Russet and who is doing either Red potato or Yukon gold. Each group gets 1 of their potato. Cut off a small piece for your paired group to visualize and give it to them. Purpose What are we doing today […]
Plant hormones and how it effects plant growth. We were split into groups and each group gave their plants a different hormone concentration and plant lengths and amount of leafs
Plant hormones The paper is on plant hormones and how it effects plant growth. We were split into groups and each group gave their plants a different hormone concentration and plant lengths and amount of leafs were counted on day 1 and a week later.
How do the scientific experiment(s) described in this talk contribute to advances in our knowledge of biology or what scientific problem are they trying to solve?
Pamela Ronald Watch pamela ronald the case for engineering our food but before watching the video answers these 3 first questions. Video #2: Pamela Ronald “The case for engineering our food” Before watching this TED talk by Pamela Ronald: 1. What does “genetic modification” mean to you? 2 Do you know of foods that have […]
Explain the research paper on Nutrition Effects of the Thyroid Gland Hormone Production of T3 and T4 and Thyroid Disorders.
Explain the research paper on Nutrition Effects of the Thyroid Gland Hormone Production of T3 and T4 and Thyroid Disorders.
Do you think, in your own opinion, that the experiments that she talks about involve producing a “GMO” (genetically modified organism)? Do you think this is a negative or positive solution to the problem?
Ted Talk Series Video #1: Jill Farrant “How we can make plants survive without water” Jill Farrant TED Talk Instructions: Click the link above to watch the video. After watching the video, answer the following questions in complete sentences. 1. What is the global problem that this Ted talk is trying to address with scientific […]
Explain why patients with type of diabetes might enter a state of diabetic ketoacidosis?Are ketosis and ketoacidosis the same?
Ketoacidosis vs Ketosis watch videos Explain why patients with type of diabetes might enter a state of diabetic ketoacidosis?Are ketosis and ketoacidosis the same? Have you ever tried the keto diet yourself? And what do you think about it?
What attracts you to area of study of biology either academic or personal in 200 words
What attracts you to area of study of biology either academic or personal in 200 words
Compare the amount of gas produced in tube 4 to that of tube 3. Galactose is an isomer of glucose. Are the yeast enzymes able to metabolize galactose as they do glucose?
Lab Report 10: Alcohol Fermentation1. During this experiment, gas pressure was measured. By what process was the gas produced? Which gas was it? 2. Yeast was added to all the tubes, but not all of them produced the gas. What had to be present in order for the gas to be made? 3. This experiment […]
Describe how the regulatory mechanism of “quorum sensing” might play a role in the pathogenesis of a Vibrio infection and how it works using the example of Lux (bacterial luminescence).
Reading Review Questions – Chapter 13 The Power of Bacteria As a tool to reinforce your reading of Chapter 13, please answer the following questions (only even numbered questions to reduce load). 2. Describe how you would show that putative translocated effector proteins from Salmonella were involved in inducing actin rearrangements, changing phosphorylation states of […]