In this activity you will be researching a microbiologist who has made an important contribution to the study of microbiology. Next you can choose an area of microbiology to research and find out about the scientists who are carrying on that type of research today. Choose one of the following […]

A local government is planning to build new roads that will divide a forest into several fragments. The roads can follow several different designs, each of which will result in fragments of different sizes. Which design will minimize the edge effects on the organisms living in the forest? Three rectangular fragments, each […]

Q. Lecture Whooping Cough Bordetella pertussis is causative agent of whooping cough. Describe the stages of whooping cough and the associated steps in infection. Where and how do the organisms colonize its host? Explain the model systems for studying B. pertussis infection. What are the advantages or disadvantages of each? […]

Part A: 1. Observation: You see “shaky leaf walking” in a Madagascaran mantid (one of about 1800 species, a member of one of dozens of genera of mantids, and a member of one of eight families of mantids). Hypothesis: The behaviour is effective because it makes the mantid look like […]