1. You need to make a 2X Luria Broth solution. You have a 100X solution. How would you make this stock solution? 2. You are interested in improving the vitamin content of your plant of interest. Describe briefly the steps that you would take to clone a gene encoding an […]

Question 1: A) List two benefits to sexual reproduction. B) List two benefits to asexual reproduction. C) Explain what monogamy, polygyny, and polyandry are. Question 2: Consider the fish shown in the figure below. Assuming the four living species evolved from their common ancestor without convergence or reversal, reconstruct their […]

Biology “Thinking the Environment” Choose one writer from our reading so far and analyze why he responds to the particular environment he writes about (for example, what exactly is White’s interest in Timothy the tortoise? what exactly is it that punches Muir’s buttons about the storm and trees? what exactly is it […]

In the experiment, we will establish microcosms to test the effect of illumination on relative abundance of our two ciliate phenotypes. You will use 3 beakers filled with water, and will inoculate these beakers with a mixed culture containing both phenotypes. Inoculation will involve adding a small volume of the […]