Term Paper- Fast Plant Experiment December 1,2014 General Biology Lab 1(BIO 2071) Lab Section 2 Teacher Assistant: Melanie Shields Group Member: Sara Fisher, Sadie Jacob Abstract Does the inheritance pattern of anthocyanin (purple pigment) follow Mendelian laws? The course sections will be subject to grow Brassica rapas plants. Brassica rapas grow at fast rate and are ideal for the Mendelian Genetics. Each pair of students will plant and grow F1 generation seeds. Once, grown the students will
living, and it is difficult to deny negative effects of global warming – observed directly - caused primarily by carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions from increased human activity surrounding these sources. Canada's Action on Climate Change reports that, from 1948 to 2010, the average annual temperature in Canada warmed by 1.6 °C, a higher rate of warming than in most other regions of the world (CCAC 2014). This trend may have a significant impact on Canadian agriculture by causing problems
Supersizing America With a fast food chain on almost every city block, we as a society always seem to walk our way through a maze of advertisements and low prices for unhealthy fast food. Obesity and declining health in children and adults today, is a huge problem that American’s face day in and day out with fast food playing the leading roll. Consuming fast food is killing us all slowly with fattening and low quality foods that contain; only god knows what, in them. The fast food industry, and to be
EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON GERMINATION LAB REPORT By : Ayşe Sağlam 10-A 07. December. 2015 Introduction: Germination is the process of the plant developing from the seed. There are several factors, which affect the germination rate and speed. These factors include light, temperature, oxygen and water. If the condition the seed is in is not suitable for germination, (such as lack of water or very low or high temperatures) the seed will remain inactive. If the conditions
Lakes are relatively small to large water bodies surrounded by land on all sides sustaining an ecosystem in and around them. Lakes have been an integral part of the ecological system by providing natural abode for plants, animals and microorganisms. Increase in urbanization and industrialization has led to the destruction and in the reduction of lakes in the city of Bangalore, Surviving lakes in Bangalore are reduced to cesspools due to direct discharge of industrial effluents and unregulated dumping
parameters chosen for the optimization were Dissolution efficiency at 10 min and In-vitro dispersion time. Data analysis was carried out by multiple linear regression analysis. Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and Attenuated total reflection (ATR) reports shown that there is no interaction between drug and excipients. Results: Four optimized formulations F1 to F4 are selected from the numerical optimization technique. The prepared formulations were evaluated for different pre-compression and post-compression
In a soup over Maggi noodles, what’s the worst for Nestle? A quality scare is a food brand’s worst nightmare, especially when children are involved. Nestle India Ltd’s share fell by 9.1% on Wednesday, after more states began to conduct tests on its instant noodles brand Maggi for higher-than permitted levels of lead and for the presence of monosodium glutamate. Fears that this situation is developing into a full-blown crisis have made investors bearish. Parallels can be drawn with the Cadbury Dairy
Title of PhD research proposal: Morphological and Molecular Characterization, Micropropagation and nutritional assessment of cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium (L.) Schott) germplasms from Ethiopia By: Eyasu Wada Wachamo Email: eyasuwada@yahoo.com Phone number (Mobile): 251 912 841 769 Skype name: eyasu.wada1 Applied Genetics PhD student, Department of Microbial, Cellular and Moleulr Biology, Addis Ababa University 1. Introduction Cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium L. Schott) is herbaceous, perennial
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This project is performed at ACC concrete ltd, Bangalore. The project focuses on studying the effect of brand image on ACC concrete mix. This project will show ACC concrete ltd an insight into the market and try to find the major factors expected by the consumer while purchasing concrete. In this project descriptive research have been used and observe how brand image of ACC has influenced people to purchase concrete products from this company. Concrete is a mixer of aggregate
BIOFUELS Two problems roused the world’s concern in recent years. One is energy crisis caused by the squandering of petroleum fuel. Second problem is environmental problems such as greenhouse effect, global warming, etc. To deal with such problems, renewable sources, utilization technology and bioenergy production technology have been developed. Bioethanol as one of the biofuel can be blended in different proportions in automobiles with gasoline. Biobutanol is also a new biofuel (Liu, Wang, & Zhang