• Question: what is your best experiment so far?

    Asked by anon-218029 to Shannah, Richard, johnpaterson, Matthew (known as Kaan by, Emma, Anna on 11 Jun 2019. This question was also asked by anon-218011, anon-218028, anon-218615, anon-218339, anon-218294.
    • Photo: Shannah Gates

      Shannah Gates answered on 11 Jun 2019:

      Transformed a gene from jelly fish into E.coli (bacteria) so that it glowed in the dark! We did it in the lab at university, it’s really fun.

    • Photo: Emma Markham

      Emma Markham answered on 12 Jun 2019:

      I really enjoyed studying the growth of plants, so I grew seeds on a clear jelly and could photograph and measure the growth of the roots and shoots everyday and understand their growth in different conditions. I like this because I could see results every day and could better understand nature. I know it sounds simple or boring but so many of the things we do in the lab are so removed from the organism we are studying, but to literally be working with the plant and examining it under the microscope and literally seeing how it works was wonderful.

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