Qubit

(laboratory mice), and ectothermic vertebrates, using Rana pipiens (leopard frogs), at room temperature (on average, 22.3 degrees Celsius), and at cooled body temperature (ten degrees lower than the room temperature recorded for each sample). We used a Qubits system, a system that measures CO2 exchange in parts per million, to test how much CO2 was consumed by our samples over varying body temperatures. We used similar materials and methods to record the CO2 concentration changes in both…

Identifying an Unknown Plasmid Through the Process of Gel Electrophoresis Introduction: Biotechnology requires certain techniques and methods that help identify plasmids, which can be used for forensics, DNA fingerprinting, etc. In this class, each lab focused on teaching the process of using the correct techniques used to identify a plasmid. Plasmids are pieces of DNA that are circular and relatively smaller than chromosomes. They aren’t important in the sense that they don’t carry out…