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BIO1A03 lab help?
I didn't want to resort to this, but I'm really stuck between a rock and a hard place on this lab.
It's the formal electrophoresis one. I'm writing the introduction, but I don't really see the purpose of the lab. that is.. I don't know what it is we're trying to prove by measuring the fragment lengths? in chemistry we have a set purpose given to us, but this lab just seems so vague.
can anyone enlighten me? x(
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You can determine whether the DNA is in circular or linear form (or both) based on the length of the fragments.
There was also something about constructing a semilog graph of distance traveled versus fragment length.
(obviously I don't remember this lab too well)
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You can determine whether the DNA is in circular or linear form (or both) based on the length of the fragments.
There was also something about constructing a semilog graph of distance traveled versus fragment length.
(obviously I don't remember this lab too well)
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that's all I've been able to infer as well (the circular/linear thing). x(
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Yeah... there really isn't much to that lab (as far as I recall anyways.)
Best of luck to you.
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doing the write-up is a massive pain with so little though xD
thanks!
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just wait until 2a03 labs :(
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doing the write-up is a massive pain with so little though xD
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We had to do the lab where you kill e. coli/m. luteus with the substance of your choice as our formal. You have a much harder write-up than we had.. |
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We had to do the lab where you kill e. coli/m. luteus with the substance of your choice as our formal. You have a much harder write-up than we had..
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seems like that one would be more work though, cause you have to come in the next day to take observations and such? |
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why? are all labs formal after first year? |
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these labs arent all formal... but they all require a take-home write-up... wit references and blah blah blah
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oh... ugh. x( well, as long as the due dates aren't the next day at 1pm, should be reasonable. |
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seems like that one would be more work though, cause you have to come in the next day to take observations and such?
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We finished in no time on the first day, so it wasn't much of a problem to come in for 10 minutes the next day to take results. |
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bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh 2a03 never again
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Random pointless fact: The velocity at which the strands travel (and hence how far they go) in the agarose gel, is based on "how knotted" the strands are. There's a knot invariant known as the "Crossing Number" that dictates this behaviour. (This is one of the things I'm reading about for my thesis)
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Random pointless fact: The velocity at which the strands travel (and hence how far they go) in the agarose gel, is based on "how knotted" the strands are. There's a knot invariant known as the "Crossing Number" that dictates this behaviour. (This is one of the things I'm reading about for my thesis)
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Mowicz for president! We need a leader who can see individuals the way they really are; topologically equivalent to timbits (I realised how seemingly inappropriate this remark could get, and am thus not commenting on the 'discontinuity' count)
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