Jellyfish

#73116 | Wednesday 1:30-4:15pm Abstract This experiment was designed to test the properties of bacterial transformation. The bacteria used was E. coli, the protein being added to it is called Green Fluorescent Protein or GFP from a jellyfish the Aequorea victoria. The GFP, in the form of a plasmid called pGLO, was added to a sample of E. coli and a control was created of E. coli without it. The E. coli was then placed in either ampicillin or not as well as with a ribosome known…

Numerous studies have been completed and manuals are written to support teaching students prosocial skills. This includes providing training for teachers and staff to promote positive behavior support, active engagement in conflict resolution and peer mediation, and judicious discipline. A crucial element to implementing effective classroom management is teaching positive behavior and serving as a mentor to children regardless of socioeconomic status. Therefore, as school-aged children learn…

When we were younger we were always told to clean up our messes. As we got older, it still holds true, for us individuals. But what about us as a collective, or the human race. Does that simple rule of cleaning up messes still hold true? Oceans take up a large portion of the earth’s surface, and were once seen as an all-encompassing, limitless reservoirs, quite able to bear the brunt of the human race. This, however, is not true as is becoming increasingly apparent. Over a few decades, humans…

Describe why you believe this adventure will have a positive impact on you life and future. What do you hope to do after high school? It would be fun to got to a different country with friends, and help the turtles to live without the poachers. The volunteer hours should be helpful when applying for colleges and when doing job interviews because employers and colleges look for people who are active in the community. After high school I hope to go to college to be a conservation officer and…

The quote within the acknowledgements of Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family draws attention to the fact that any history is a story at heart, and like any story, is subject to the story teller. From the first page of the book, Ondaatje draws our attention to the form of this story, and the flaws therein. The prologue seems to be Ondaatje himself, describing his arrival to his homeland as the author, the narrator. His first act is to draw attention to himself and the form of his story,…

(8). Performing their studies at the same time, but unbeknownst to each other, Forel, His, and Nansen can be regarded as the first “anti-reticularists”, greatly influencing Cajal. Even earlier however, was Edward Schafer, who in 1877 studied the jellyfish nervous system and saw no connections between the nerve elements in their mantles (10). One year after Forel and Nansen published their results, Cajal first articulated the neuron doctrine, and disseminated the theory to the German Anatomical…

DNA analysis by By Condy Kan Introduction Osamu Shimomura and his colleagues successfully discovered and isolated green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria; GFP consists of a tripeptide, which is Ser-65, Tyr-66, and Gly-67, that forms fluorescence chromophore (1). Fluorescence chromophore, is accountable for its green fluorescence under UV light, helps to identify and determine the cells if the Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein (EGFP) gene is expressed or not (2). In…

First Time in Florida Spring break is always a really great time for students. Spring break is a break from school and that can’t ever be a bad thing.Often times students go to sunny Florida and that was exactly where I was headed for the week. Not only flying for the first time but this would also be my first time in Florida. I was so excited I might have made the teachers want spring break just as bad as I did. The airport was the worst part of the trip. It was so loud I couldn’t hear the…

of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, with many small features working together to support a variety of marine life. They are typically found in warm, shallow waters of tropical environments, especially in the Pacific Ocean. Thousands of jellyfish-like animals called polyps, connect together to form colonies. These colonies host algae, that provide corals with food, as well as their vivid color, due to the process of photosynthesis. The combination of environmental disturbances such as…

transformations is process of inserting “a gene into an organism in order to change the organism’s trait.” In this particular lab, students will be taking the pGLO gene, which makes the protein Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), commonly found in a species of jellyfish, which glow (N.d., p. 32). Theoretically, when the pGLO gene is inserted into the E. coli bacteria, then the E. coli bacteria will also…