BISC209:Project1

Project: Soil Microbial Diversity

In this series of nine labs you will learn:

1. To think, work, and write as microbiologists
   
2. To use the basic tools and techniques of traditional and molecular microbiology
   
3. To investigate the diversity and identity of soil microorganisms in a habitat of your own choosing
4. To make careful, unbiased observations and to record and analyze them for meaning and importance
   
5. To design controlled experiments and collect data from those experiments to answer questions that arise from your observations
   
6. To show data in effective figures or tables
   
7. To make and articulate conclusions from experimental results
   
8. To write intelligibly in scientific research report format about your investigation and its conclusions, including its significance or implications
   
   

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We would like to thank Patricia M. Steubing; Stephen C. Wagner and Robert S. Stewart, Jr.; Kyle Seifert, Amy Fenster, Judith A. Dilts, and Louise Temple; and the instructors of the Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, MA for their valuable assistance in the development of these labs.