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SciBomb97 wrote:Does anybody know of any good resources/websites to study for the microscopy portion?
I think I googled for microscopes for diagrams of them and images produced (including scanning probe microscopes). I also made a chart having range of view, main use, light, number of lenses/what is used to see, problems. I used a bit of wikipedia,for more detailed descriptions I went to the nikon site from the nationals website ( http://www.microscopyu.com/), and for a decent overview: http://www.cas.muohio.edu/mbi-ws/microscopes/index.html. Other than that I googled random websites if I wanted to know something else or something from the rules. Sorry if that didn't help much, but honestly I didn't save too many websites. To check info you could always get a textbook (I think textbooks have been discussed), finding someone who knows about the topic helps (I couldn't find someone, but it does help).
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SciBomb97 wrote:Does anybody know of any good resources/websites to study for the microscopy portion?
I think I googled for microscopes for diagrams of them and images produced (including scanning probe microscopes). I also made a chart having range of view, main use, light, number of lenses/what is used to see, problems. I used a bit of wikipedia,for more detailed descriptions I went to the nikon site from the nationals website ( http://www.microscopyu.com/), and for a decent overview: http://www.cas.muohio.edu/mbi-ws/microscopes/index.html. Other than that I googled random websites if I wanted to know something else or something from the rules. Sorry if that didn't help much, but honestly I didn't save too many websites. To check info you could always get a textbook (I think textbooks have been discussed), finding someone who knows about the topic helps (I couldn't find someone, but it does help).
Yeah, the links under the soinc.org page about microscopy are really helpful. I would also just search up info about each type (ex. light, electron, etc.) on google and compile some info. Be careful, though, as some websites may be unreliable.
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I would like to have microbes be less station based and more one test based with the exception of having a microscope to look at petri dishes and other hands on parts of the test, but over all i wish the test was not stationed
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I disagree, my favorite aspect of microbe missions is the disease list. The difference between the disease list for Microbes and disease detectives is that microbes is more about why and how they cause disease. I personally love that stuff
amerikestrel wrote:I wish that they'd remove the disease list altogether and focus the event on cell biology and microbiology.
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Gearbox wrote:I would like to have microbes be less station based and more one test based with the exception of having a microscope to look at petri dishes and other hands on parts of the test, but over all i wish the test was not stationed
Well I guess having stations is what makes Microbe mission a unique event, otherwise it would be kind of like disease detectives. I don't know xD
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Gearbox wrote:I would like to have microbes be less station based and more one test based with the exception of having a microscope to look at petri dishes and other hands on parts of the test, but over all i wish the test was not stationed
Gearbox wrote:I disagree, my favorite aspect of microbe missions is the disease list. The difference between the disease list for Microbes and disease detectives is that microbes is more about why and how they cause disease. I personally love that stuff
amerikestrel wrote:I wish that they'd remove the disease list altogether and focus the event on cell biology and microbiology.
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i was taking a test the other day and it says prions are hereditary? my coach disagrees with this but does anybody know for sure?
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ccluvit wrote:i was taking a test the other day and it says prions are hereditary? my coach disagrees with this but does anybody know for sure?
Now I am quite confused, I thought prions were hereditary and infectious (but it was that it was specific in how you got it). Could be wrong about that but having a second check would help.
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ccluvit wrote:i was taking a test the other day and it says prions are hereditary? my coach disagrees with this but does anybody know for sure?
Now I am quite confused, I thought prions were hereditary and infectious (but it was that it was specific in how you got it). Could be wrong about that but having a second check would help.
Prions are different from the other pathogens in the fact that it does not exactly replicate. They're basically messed up proteins that convert other normal proteins in cells to more messed up proteins.
I'm not sure about the hereditary mechanism of prions, and this stuff is still in research, so I guess it could be either, although I've never heard it suggested that prions can be transmitted via vertical transmission.
As of infectious, that's an iffy one according to logic since, as afore mentioned, they do not exactly reproduce. However, prions are generally considered infectious microbes, so yeah...
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