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What Can We Learn From Worms? How the nematode C. elegans maintains balance in a changing environment
What Can We Learn From Worms? How the nematode C. elegans maintains balance in a changing environment
We hope you have learned a lot during this unit! Before taking the quiz, let's revisit the learning objectives. We hope you can....
We hope you have learned a lot during this unit! Before taking the quiz, let's revisit the learning objectives. We hope you can....
- Recall basic information about nematodes and explain why they are useful in research as model organisms.
- Identify the lifecycle stages of the model organism C. elegans.
- Refer to your observations of worms after 15 minutes, 24 hours, and 48 hours of transferring them to the new plates.
- Identify similarities and differences in the response of the two worm strains to an environmental change.
- Construct an explanation for how glycerol can protect C. elegans in a high-salt environment.
- Analyze and interpret data from the scientific literature.
- Develop an explanation for how differences in gene expression help C. elegans maintain homeostasis.
- Demonstrate how the DNA sequence of a gene codes for the amino acid sequence of a protein.
- Explain the effect of a single nucleotide change on the function of a protein.
- Use a Universal Genetic Code chart to determine the protein sequence of a gene.
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