What an experience! Team Man-Mo has successfully dissected subject PIG-25 (aka Daphne). We removed the heart, lungs, pancreas, stomach, spleen, intestines, kidneys, liver, ovaries, bladder diaphragm and brain (not very perfectly though). The experience was definitely an enriching one. We had a real-life view of what we learned in textbooks. Below are pictures from this extraordinary

One interesting symbiosis relationship we talked about at the ROM is the one between the snowshoe hare and the lynx. This predator-prey (+/-) relationship is particularly interesting as the habitat of these two species does not have a lot of other relationships. For this reason the predator-prey boom-and-bust cycle is especially distinct between the two. The population of

2. Where is the dolphin slaughter taking place? A: Taiji, Japan 6. What country indirectly runs the International Whaling Commission? A: Japan 8. How do the fisherman trap the dolphins in the cove? A: The method is called the "drive hunt". Fishing boats form a barrier that traps the dolphins between the boats and the cove. The fishermen then lower a stick-like material

I never thought of myself as someone who really cared about the environment (I partially blame it on my education in Singapore). When people talk about the polar bears losing their homes, or massive deforestation, I’d go “Ow, that’s really bad” but end there. That opinion changed after watching the video “Sharkwaters”. For once, I saw how such a beautiful and majestic species

The results show that the more the subjects pinches, the harder it becomes to pinch. This is due to muscle fatigue caused by accumulation of lactic acid. I suspect anaerobic respiration will be our area of focus ne

Energy In a local closed system, orderliness can arise without entropy increasing. However, the energy used to maintain this order will be transferred to an unusable form, hence causing entropy to increase outside the system.  In chemical reactions, entropy increases when Solids become liquid/gas products (or liquid becomes gas products) x moles of reactant molecules

Gel Electrophoresis Used in vector cloning (to isolate the gene of interest), RFLP (to compare fragments), DNA Sequencing Vector Cloning (Overview, RE) Required materials: pBluescript vector plasmid, Restriction Enzymes, Ligase, Bacteria Steps Cut donor DNA with restriction enzymes, find the targeted DNA fragment through gel electrophoresis  Remove section of pBluescript