use spot plating techniques to compare the growth of yeast strains on solid culture media.
predict the ability of specific met deletion strains to grow on media containing various sulfur sources.
predict how mutations in specific genes will affect the concentrations of metabolites in the pathways involved in methionine biosynthesis.
A flexible, multi-week approach to plant biology - How will plants respond to higher levels of CO2?
Apply findings from each week's lesson to make predictions and informed hypotheses about the next week's lesson.
Keep a detailed laboratory notebook.
Write and peer-edit the sections of a scientific paper, and collaboratively write an entire lab report in the form of a scientific research paper.
Search for, find, and read scientific research papers.
Work together as a team to conduct experiments.
Connect findings and ideas from each week's lesson to get a broader understanding of how plants will respond to higher levels of CO2 (e.g., stomatal density, photosynthetic/respiratory rates, foliar protein concentrations, growth, and resource allocation).
Students will be able to manipulate and produce data and graphs.
Students will be able to design a simple mathematical model of atmospheric CO2 that can be used to make predictions.
Students will be able to conduct simulations, analyze, interpret, and draw conclusions about atmospheric CO2 levels from their own computer generated simulated data.
Describe how changes in cellular homeostasis affect metabolic intermediates.
Perturb and interpret a simulation of cellular respiration.
Describe cellular mechanisms regulating cellular respiration.
Describe how glucose, oxygen, and coenzymes affect cellular respiration.
Describe the interconnectedness of cellular respiration.
Identify and describe the inputs and outputs of cellular respiration, glycolysis, pyruvate processing, citric acid cycle, and the electron transport chain.
Describe how different energy sources are used in cellular respiration.
Trace carbon through cellular respiration from glucose to carbon dioxide.