Sarah Carratt: Week 5

Instructions

CHEMOSTAT MODELS:

1. What was the purpose of this assignment?
2. What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
3. What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
4. What (yet) do you not understand?

LANDER ARTICLE:

1. What distinction does Lander draw between modeling to "discover new knowledge" and modeling for "understanding"?
2. Which point of view resonates with you more? Why?

Individual Journal Assignment

• Store this journal entry as "username Week 5" (i.e., this is the text to place between the square brackets when you link to this page).
• Create the following set of links. (HINT: you can do all of this easily by adding them to your template and then using the template on your pages.)
  • Link to your journal entry from your user page.
  • Link back from your journal entry to your user page.
  • Link to this assignment from your journal entry.
  • Don't forget to add the "BIOL398-01/S11" category to the end of your wiki page.

A simple chemostat model of nutrients and population growth

• Click here for a PDF file containing this week's assignment.

Shared Journal Assignment

• Store your journal entry in the shared Class Journal Week 5 page. If this page does not exist yet, go ahead and create it (congratulations on getting in first :) )
• Link to your journal entry from your user page.
• Link back from the journal entry to your user page.
• Sign your portion of the journal with the standard wiki signature shortcut (~~~~).
• Add the "BIOL398-01/S11" category to the end of the wiki page (if someone has not already done so).

Reflection on Chemostat Model

1. What was the purpose of this assignment?
2. What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
3. What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
4. What (yet) do you not understand?

Read and Reflect

• Read the article Lander, AD (2010) The Edges of Understanding. BMC Biology 8:40.
  1. What distinction does Lander draw between modeling to "discover new knowledge" and modeling for "understanding"?
  2. Which point of view resonates with you more? Why?

Navigation Guide

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