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Follow the Sulfur: Using Yeast Mutants to Study a Metabolic Pathway
Learning ObjectivesAt the end of this lesson, students will be able to:- 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.
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You and Your Oral Microflora: Introducing non-biology majors to their “forgotten organ”
Learning ObjectivesStudents will be able to:- Explain both beneficial and detrimental roles of microbes in human health.
- Compare and contrast DNA replication as it occurs inside a cell versus in a test tube
- Identify an unknown sequence of DNA by performing a BLAST search
- Navigate sources of scientific information to assess the accuracy of their experimental techniques