BIOL398-05/S17:Class Journal Week 6
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Lauren M. Kelly Reflection
- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- I found reading the article and finding the relationships between the variables relatively easy. The relationships/correlations between the variables were easy to pick up on, and thus helped me see what I would possibly need to include in the differential equations.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- I found that taking what I had learned from the article and applying it to writing a system of differential equations was extremely difficult. I had trouble seeing how the variables used in the paper could be incorporated into equations that represented the yeast population. It was difficult to know where to start, and I hope that referring to the Week 5 assignment for guidance at least pointed me in the right direction.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- I do not yet understand how to write differential equations based on information in a paper. I hope that with more practice and a refreshed understanding of differential equations I will be able to grasp this concept.
Lauren M. Kelly 00:14, 23 February 2017 (EST)
Margaret J. ONeil
- Doing the research for looking into how respiration was modeled in other papers came most easy to me and the part of the assignment I found to be the most interesting. I enjoyed the process of hunting to similar variables and concepts I might be able to use in my own system of equations, and helped me gain a better conceptual understanding of the relationship between glucose concentration and aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
- I found creating the system of equations, and figuring out the specific relationship between fermentation and aerobic respiration to be the most challenging to me. I couldn't find the similarities between the two rates for awhile, and kept getting hung-up on modeling those two terms. Eventually I had to go with my best guess based on the papers I read, though for the rest of the project I plan on doing a more exhaustive search in the literature to see how others are modeling the relationship between fermentation and respiration.
- As mentioned above, I still am struggling to understand the relationship between aerobic respiration and fermentation and how one might be limiting the other. To remedy this, again as previously mentioned, I plan to do more in-depth research on the mathematical modeling of this relationship
Margaret J. Oneil 00:36, 23 February 2017 (EST)
Conor Keith Reflection
- The part that came easiest for me was reading and understanding the mathematical aspects of the models. I enjoyed learning new ways to model each of the elements of nitrogen metabolism.
- The most challenging part of the assignment had to be interpreting each individual aspect of nitrogen metabolism, especially discerning which parts of the model from the article seemed important.
- I still am unsure of the details of the mechanics of alpha-ketoglutarate, and whether or not it is produced when ammonia is introduced or if more if it is used for amino acid synthesis.
Conor Keith 01:22, 23 February 2017 (EST)