...London School of Engineering and Materials Science Laboratory report writing instructions DEN101 - Fluid Mechanics 1 Flow Rate Measurement Experiment A. Student Student Number: 1234567 Version 2.0, 27 November 2010 Template for Word 97-2003 Abstract This document explains what is expected in your Fluids 1 lab report. The sections that should be covered are outlined and a structure you could follow is proposed. Detailed advice on how to edit the report is given. The document concludes with the marking criteria for this lab report. Table of Contents Abstract 2 1. Introduction 3 1.1. Writing 3 1.2. Editing and formatting 3 1.3. Content of the introduction 4 2. Background and theory 4 3. Apparatus 4 4. Test 4 5. Experimental procedure 4 6. Results 5 7. Discussion 5 8. Conclusions 5 9. References 5 10. Appendix A: Marking criteria 6 Introduction Before starting to write a report, you should think about what is your audience. Am I writing for colleagues who want a lot of detail how it is done, or am I writing for my boss who just wants an executive summary as he has no time for details? In general, there is not a single type of audience and we have to make our writing suitable for the detailed read, as well as the fast perusal. To understand what is required from you in this report, please have a look at the marking criteria in the Appendix. 1 Writing To limit...
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...C Fern Lab Report July 15, 2009 The life cycle of land plants is characterized by an alteration between two phases or generation that is morphologically and functionally different. The gametophytes generation is the sexual phase of the life cycle. C-Ferns have independent haploid and diploid generations, distinct sexual types within the gametophyte generation, and they rapidly develop to full sexual maturity within two weeks. They also possess a variety of distinct visual phenotypes that can be used to perform genetic crosses (Hickok and Warne 1998). A C-Fern sporophyte is a regular diploid plant. This plant undergoes meiosis on special cells on the underside of leaves, resulting in 1N (haploid) spores. The spores undergo mitosis to produce gametophytes, of which there are two separate genders. One gender is the hermaphrodite, which is rather large and heart-shaped, and produces both eggs and a small amount of sperm. The other gametophyte gender is a very small, club-shaped male, which produces sperm only. There are no female-only gametophytes (Hickok and Warne 1998). Germination occurs three to four days and full sexual maturity is attained within six days after germination. At maturity, the gametophyte consists of a small, simple essentially flat thallus with rhizoids, vegetative cells and sexual organs (archegonia and antheridia). Archegonia are female organs that contain one egg each that lies at the base of a small neck that sticks out from the surface...
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...Auxin on Plant Growth Sahil Modi TA: Eric Robert Schuppe 3/12/14 Biology Lab Report 2108K Abstract: There are several ways to help plant growth through artificial hormone insertion. This experiment mainly was set up to see if the hormone Auxin would promote growth to these plants in different soil types like sandy, acidic, and regular with the uses of the radish seeds put in each one. . The plant with the insertion of auxins created a decent amount of growth in the sandy and regular soil, while the plant in the acidic soil had no growth whatsoever. Sandy soil prospered the most with growth. So by doing this experiment it shows Auxin is good with plant development and does change plant structure. Introduction: Plants all over the world grow at a slow and steady pace but the population of the world is growing at an exponential rate. To maximize plant growth, farmers and agriculturist are using chemicals called hormones to help stimulate rapid plant growth and development. Without plant hormones the plants would not grow properly. There are several different hormones that affect plant growth; the hormones used in this experiment are called Auxin. The other hormones that can be used for growth are Gibberellins, Cytokinins, Ethylene and Abscisic acid. In this experiment Auxin was used. What is auxin? Auxin is a hormone, which regulates plant growth. "Auxin helps to stimulate the cell elongation which made the Auxin...
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...Introduction Banana (Musaspp.) is the fourth most important global food commodity after rice, wheat and maize in terms of gross value production. At present, it is grown in more than 120 countries throughout tropical and subtropical regions and it is the staple food for more than400 million people (Molina and Valmayor, 1999). Among the production constraints, Fusarium wilt caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp cubense(Foc) is the most devastating disease affecting commercial and subsistence of banana production through out the banana producing areas of the world (Ploetz, 2005). The disease is ranked as one of the top 6 important plant diseases in the world (Ploetz & Pegg, 1997). In terms of crop destruction, it ranks with the few most devastating diseases such as wheat rust and potato blight (Carefoot andsprott, 1969). The disease almost destroyed the banana export industry, built on the Gros Michel variety, in Central America during the 1950’s (Stover, 1962). In addition, the widely grown clones in the ABB ‘Bluggoe’ and AAA ‘Gros Michel and Cavendish’ sub groups are also highly susceptible to this disease worldwide. Presently, Fusarium wilt has been reported in all banana growing regions of the world (Asia, Africa, Australia and the tropical Americas) except some islands in the South Pacific, the Mediterranean, Melanesia,and Somalia (Stover, 1962; Anonymous, 1977; Ploetz and Pegg, 2000). The fungus Focis the soilborne hyphomycete and is one of more than 100 formae...
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...Unit II: Genetics Brief Overview Reading: Chapters 3, 4, 9-12, 14 (Note: you have reviewed much of this already) The earth is teeming with living things. We can easily see some of the larger organisms—trees, grass, flowers, weeds, cats, fish, squirrels, dogs, insects, spiders, snails, mushrooms, lichens. Other organisms are everywhere, in the air, in water, soil and on our skin, but are too small to see with the naked eye—bacteria, viruses, protists (single celled eukaryotes such as amoebae), and tiny plants and animals. Life is remarkable in its complexity and diversity, and yet it all boils down to a very simple idea—the instructions for making all this life are written in nucleic acids, usually DNA. Most organisms have a set of DNA that contains the instructions for making that creature. This DNA contains four “letters” in which these instructions are written—A, T, G, and C. The only difference between the code for a dog and the code for a geranium is in the order of those letters in the code. If you took the DNA from a human and rearranged the letters in the right way, you could produce an oak tree—arrange them slightly differently and you would have a bumble bee—arrange them again and you would have the instructions for making a bacterium. Acting through more than two billion years, the process of evolution has taken one basic idea—a molecular code that uses four letters—and used it over and over, in millions of combinations to produce a dazzling array of life forms...
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