The article that we read this week detailed 5 different questions that should be asked of scientific research to insure that it is valid and accurate. The first one is whether the experiments detect differences that matter. This is important because a lot of the time people get caught up in the tiny differences that… Continue reading Writing Exercise #9
Writing Exercise #8
This week we read the paper that was published where an entire genome of a free organism was sequenced, as well as a smaller article that summarized the paper’s findings. It was extremely interesting to read about how the team approached the task of sequencing. I noticed that they used the high throughput sequencing, like… Continue reading Writing Exercise #8
Week 7 Writing Exercise
Adele Mennerat in their research paper titled “How to Deal with PCR Contamination in Molecular Microbial Ecology”(2014) outlines strategies for reducing bacterial contamination in PCR samples. Mennerat provides evidence that using restrictions enzymes Dnase 1 and Sau3 AI to PCR samples can reduce bacterial richness observed, thereby reducing overall contamination, and works the most effectively… Continue reading Week 7 Writing Exercise
Week 6- Writing Prompt
The recent coding exercises that we have been doing in class have been an interesting experience. In the past, I have really struggled with coding, and it is not something that I have any knowledge of or care to learn. With that in mind, this class experience has both been extremely challenging and a huge… Continue reading Week 6- Writing Prompt
Writing Prompt- Week 5
Looking at others research proposals has definitely been helpful in inspiring my writing and how I write in a scientific fashion. One of the benefits of having access to so many different papers is it helps me to figure out how I want to structure my own writing. In writing it is a lot easier… Continue reading Writing Prompt- Week 5
Week 4 Writing Exercise
Kate SG in her study “Indigenous multi-resistant bacteria from flowers in hospital and nonhospital environments” for the American Journal of Infection Control indicates that flowers have populations of indigenous multi-resistant bacteria. SG shows through her sampling of 60 flowers placed in both hospital and non-hospital environments that bacterial communities are existent in flowers, and are… Continue reading Week 4 Writing Exercise
Week 3 Writing Prompt
This week’s topic is the process of peer review. Basically, in short, the process of peer review is a way for scientific papers to be thoroughly edited and commented on by fellow scientific researchers before publishing. The first step for the authors of a potential paper is to submit it to a journal of their… Continue reading Week 3 Writing Prompt
Week 2- Writing Prompt #2
This week the writing prompt is about how it feels to review and edit peoples papers, especially after learning about how peer review really works in the scientific community. Personally I really enjoy being able to read peoples writing and help them make it better. I have always enjoyed writing and editing, so while giving… Continue reading Week 2- Writing Prompt #2
Week1-Writing Prompt #1
This weeks prompt is about what characteristics are commonly shared in a microbial population. There are many different factors that define a group of microorganisms, but some of these are more commonplace than others. To start, factors such as temperature tolerance and ideal pH are shared characteristics. If we define a population of bacteria as… Continue reading Week1-Writing Prompt #1
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