Malthus Under a Microscope
Contributor:
Melinda M. Mueller
Institution:
Seattle Academy Mueller, M. (2007). Malthus Under a Microscope: Using the soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to test Darwin’s premises about populations. The American Biology Teacher, 69(4), 219-225.
Students cultivated C. elegans
, measured C. elegans population over time to gain deeper understanding of Darwin’s premises about populations, such as natural selection.
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Random Worm Term
Proteins required for polarity and partitioning molecules to different regions of a cell, several of which are themselves partitioned, e.g. PAR-2.
and partitioning molecules to different regions of a cell, several of which are themselves partitioned, e.g. PAR-2.