Main concepts:
-mutations cause by viruses
- inject their own DNA into another's
- jumping genes
- Junk DNA and how it was probably used in evolution
- it also probably was originally a virus that we now have a beneficial relationship with
- vaccines are less server versions of a virus
- allows our immune system to produce antibodies specifically for that virus before we get infected
- flu is hard to control because it mutates easily
Then we did a lab in class.
This lab will show how bacteria react to Pglo and antibiotics that we add to its environment and DNA.
^ a picture of our two different bacteria
^these are the original bacteria colonies
^ we are heat shocking the bacteria so none of the genetic material escape from the bacteria cell after we insert the Pglo
^ these are the bacteria before we put them in their labels dishes
^here we are spreading our DNA so we can space out the individual bacteria
^ then we let them grow !!!!