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Yeast Lab Report Guidelines
1. Lab reports are to be computer-generated and double-spaced. All sections of the report must be written in paragraph form.
2. Do not use encyclopedias (Internet or otherwise), dictionaries ((Internet or otherwise), or personal web pages as sources for the report, this includes Wikipedia. You may use a textbook, lab manual, and/or article(s) in a published journal.
You can find journal articles by going to the library website: http://www.lib.clemson.edu/ and selecting “Find Articles”, then choose the letter B, and then the database BIOSIS or
BioOne, or choose the letter P and use PubMed (or if you have a database you would rather use, please feel free). If you are off campus when you do this, you will need to …show more content…

State the purpose of the experiment.
State the null hypothesis. Information in this section of the report must be presented in this sequence: background information, purpose of the experiment, null hypothesis tested. [Note that the background information should be presented in your own words. Do not quote directly from a source; instead, summarize the work in your own words and use a citation.]
CITATIONS: When you use information from a textbook, lab manual or an article in a published journal, you need to cite the source of the information. When you cite the source of information in the report, you give the name(s) of the author(s) and the date of publication. See examples below.
For one author, the citation should be as follows:
Standard metabolic rate (SMR) increases with body size in male house crickets (Hack, 1997).
For two authors, the citation should be as follows:
Daphnia are an important prey resource for many invertebrate and vertebrate predators (Mills and Forney, 1983).
For three or more authors, the citation should be as follows:
Jumping ability in fleas is correlated with resting metabolic rate (Krasnov et al., 2004).
METHODS AND MATERIALS
Describe what you did in the experiment, and include methods and materials used. Do not include any results, just describe what you did, not what you found. Lastly, include the following statement, which addresses the statistical method used to analyze the data: A chi-square median test was used to

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