Effects of UV on Yeast lab report

You may write this report with your lab partner(s) or you may complete it individually, if you wish.  If you write this together with your lab partner(s), be sure to include a section titled “author contribution” at the end of the report that briefly states who worked on which section, who edited each section, who made each figure, etc.

1. Give your report a title. It has to be concise, yet it needs to give your readers a good idea of the scope of your report.  Don’t just call it “UV effects in yeast” or something else generic.  What specifically did you test in the second half of this lab?  Have the title convey that.  Often times, good titles will state the actual findings of the work rather than just the question being asked.

2. Write this section last! It is difficult to write before you spend a significant amount of thinking and writing about your data. Keep your abstract under 200 words.  Abstracts typically have this general structure:

   1. Generally describe the topic your paper covers. Provide the reader with a brief background/context.

   2. State the problem/unknown you are attempting to investigate. What is your idea/hypothesis/question?

   3. State your approach/technique(s) you used to testing your hypothesis. Do not get into details here – that will go in the materials and methods section!

   4. What were your main findings and what was their importance?

3. Introduction Write a couple of paragraphs that outline your goals and purpose of your Yeast experiments. Begin generally, by discussing the dangers of UV light and how UV light damages DNA. Discuss briefly how our cells deal with DNA damage. Transition into the need to better understand if certain skin-protective creams, lotions etc. work better than others and how yeast are a great model organism to do so. Briefly outline why yeast can be used as a model organism: what is similar between yeast and humans?  What is your main questions and how did you set out to answer it?  What were your main findings?

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