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Ending The Reproduction of Kudzu Trifold
Ending The Reproduction of Kudzu Trifold
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• 14 Petri Plates 5. The next day or when the bacteria have had time 52. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
researching Kudzu this year we can use S0734975014001931
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Research Question(s): Will water.
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• LB Media for transformation
Kudzu stop reproducing if its genome 8. Add LB media to your cell solution for about 1
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recovery perspectives on the use of CRISPR/Cas9 systems in plant genomics
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• Bacterial Transformation Kit 0052882&site=ehost-live
in reproduction and use CRISPR to learn for 10 minutes
how to edit genes then we can
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Conclusions
Acknowledgements
The hypothesis was proven or disproven
because of a misstep made in our project. We would like to thank many people for
We dropped a few plates on the ground helping us complete our science fair this
during testing and we scrapped the plate year, we couldn't have done it without
too roughly when we were attempting the them. Specifically we would like to thank
last steps in our procedure. Mrs. Curran, Ms. Allard, Mr. Ward, Mr.
This is when we made the A picture of the different This is our final product after plating
Holder, Mrs. Tatum, and our parents.
bacterial transformation bacterial transformation our bacterial transformation mix onto
mix. tubes. the LB Strep plate.