Final Assignments: To be completed in class unless you’re absent.
1. With your pGLO lab partner, design a lab to test the effectiveness of chloramphenicol, tetracycline and/or ampicillin against E. coli. You can make several different strengths of ampicillin by diluting the liquid antibiotic in class. You will have ONE petri dish per lab group with luria broth (LB) already dissolved in it.
You will have a ‘mother plate’ of E. coli to streak onto this plate.
Variables could include amount of time and temperature between streaking the plate and placing the antibiotic discs on it and the incubation time and temperature after adding the discs. You should do some research on E.coli and on ampicillin before making a prediction.
*I need a short lab report of this lab which can be written OR a series of illustrations.
2. At least one contribution towards the GMO information banner for the rest of the school to read.
Contributions need to be in a concise and legible format. They may be typed and printed out or handwritten. Small pictures are good. They need to include a source to be included on the banner.
You may:
Chose to explain what genetic engineering is and how it’s actually done, eg. gene guns, delivery by viruses, genetic transformation, etc.
Find an example of a GMO. Describe how and why it’s been modified. For example, Golden Rice or Bt corn.
Describe the arguments for or against making GMOs.
Describe the legislation about labeling GMOs in food – which states, what
(all?) foods, who’s on which side of the debate and why.
3. A graphic summary of a concept (eg diffusion, osmosis, respiration, genetic engineering, antibiotic resistance in bacteria) or a lab (egg-speriment, germinating beans, yeast and sugar, pGLO) to share as a ‘zine’. Use colored paper, use more pictures and fewer words. You can also go back to vaping or HGH; organelles in a cell, characteristics of life, the human microbiome or anything else we’ve covered in the last ten weeks.
I will share a small (fifteen minute) one I made as well as some projects from a history of Earth assignment.