Biotechnology Problem Solution Project
For this project our group had to come up with problems in the world. We came up with unhappiness, HIV, water pollution, and unhealthy emissions that come from cars. We made a poster that showed our ideas for the solutions to the class. Genetically modified chocolate, self destructive HIV cells, bacteria that eats pollutants and using biofuels instead of regular gasoline. Then we chose which problem we would do and we chose unhappiness. We devised three different strategies to genetically modify the chocolate the have to DNA. These are our efficacy tests. The pictures of the efficacy tests are below. Then we found a mentor to email. We made a statement of purpose with our ideas and other background information. We made our email and sent it to Dr. McCarthy. Unfortunately we did not get a response. Our statement of purpose, email, and efficacy tests can be located below.
Some things that I did well was doing lots of research for our projects so that all of my team members had a better understanding of our idea. I also did a good job of balancing work between the people in my group.
Some things I could have done better was speaking up about which project idea I wanted to do. Making genetically modified chocolate is fun but it's not really a problem in the world and I knew that. Next time I will have a more dominant voice in choosing a project.
Another thing I could've done was get things completed faster. We waited until the last minute to finish which stressed us out more than it needed to.
For this project our group had to come up with problems in the world. We came up with unhappiness, HIV, water pollution, and unhealthy emissions that come from cars. We made a poster that showed our ideas for the solutions to the class. Genetically modified chocolate, self destructive HIV cells, bacteria that eats pollutants and using biofuels instead of regular gasoline. Then we chose which problem we would do and we chose unhappiness. We devised three different strategies to genetically modify the chocolate the have to DNA. These are our efficacy tests. The pictures of the efficacy tests are below. Then we found a mentor to email. We made a statement of purpose with our ideas and other background information. We made our email and sent it to Dr. McCarthy. Unfortunately we did not get a response. Our statement of purpose, email, and efficacy tests can be located below.
Some things that I did well was doing lots of research for our projects so that all of my team members had a better understanding of our idea. I also did a good job of balancing work between the people in my group.
Some things I could have done better was speaking up about which project idea I wanted to do. Making genetically modified chocolate is fun but it's not really a problem in the world and I knew that. Next time I will have a more dominant voice in choosing a project.
Another thing I could've done was get things completed faster. We waited until the last minute to finish which stressed us out more than it needed to.