I am leading a lab in my Advanced Bio class (I'm a senior in high school). I wanted to try to do something other than the 12 standard AP Bio labs. It would be good if it could be done in a class of 20 students . If you don't have an idea, can you think of an interesting topic that I could search for an experiment on?
2007-02-03 11:23:32 · 3 answers · asked by branzillie 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I think the molecular biology and biotechnology labs would be pretty interesting. What we did in our IB Biology 1 class was take E. Coli and introduced a gene from a jelly fish to it using an ampicillin-resistant plasmid. What we got were petri dishes with little colonies of fluorescent E. coli. However, i'm not sure you will be able to pay for this; our school had a subsidy from UC Davis for like 10000 dollars of biotechnology lab materials.
2007-02-09 15:06:41 · answer #1 · answered by kz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could do a lab on infection (ie: bacteriophage lambda infection of bacteria). The molecular biology lab on transformation contains most of the materials necessary to perform the experiment except for the phage.
2007-02-03 21:08:41 · answer #2 · answered by sciencewiz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
expading on the first answer, you could try and create an antiretroviral drug that "saves" bacteria from bacteriophages. email to code_maester@yahoo.com if you need help
2007-02-11 16:41:49 · answer #3 · answered by code_maester 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋