In my own brief foray into the laboratory as an undergrad, I poured agar into probably hundreds of petri dishes, a tedious but necessary first step for many experiments. The lab where Protacio ...

The split-plot design is an example of a restriction on randomization where a main effect is confounded with blocks. Sometimes these restrictions are necessary because the complete factorial cannot be ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

Performing the above experiment with the same technique but ... DNA-modifying enzymes such as restriction endonucleases. The agar matrix in which the DNA is embedded allows most enzymes to diffuse ...

In 1953, scientist Stanley Miller performed an experiment that may explain what ... they import the possible building blocks of life, not necessarily life itself. Scientists think that along ...

Inoculate one tube of TSB using an inoculating loop. _____ • Inoculate one tube of Nitrate broth using an inoculating loop. _____ • Inoculate motility agar using a needle to make one stab down the ...

The spring constant of a spring can be found by carrying out an experiment. The unloaded length of a spring is measured. Slotted masses are added to the spring. Record each stretching force in N ...

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Mission engineers sent a command to shutter the Voyager 2’s Plasma Science, or PLS, experiment — which was used to observe solar winds — on September 26 using the Deep Space Network ...