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BIOLOGY AND ALLIES SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT IDEAS AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURE • Vegetative reproduction • Organic vs. chemical fertilizers • Vermiculture - compost • Biogas production • Nitrogen fixation and plant production (Rhizobium) • Decomposition BIODIVERSITY BIODIVERSITY • Fossil mollusk assemblage diversity • Canopy and understory diversity assessment • Lichen diversity • Forest species richness • Insect biodiversity ECOLOGY ECOLOGY • Fungi and seedling communites survival • Interaction between trees and insect seed predators. • Matureness of the seed vs fungal infection • Symbiosis: Fig-wasp interaction • Herbivory vs plant vigor and reproduction • Work with databases – TROPICOS, STRI • Population growth extrapolated to human population • Bioindicators - assessing mating strategies • Herbivory types – insects …ECOLOGY ECOPHYSIOLOGY ECOPHYSIOLOGY • • • • • • Factors that affects transpiration rates. Global warming affecting Seed germination rate or O2-CO2 production rates Positive or negative allelopathy in plants. Stomatal density and pollution Temperature, salinity and pH effect on… EDAPHOLOGY EDAPHOLOGY • Soil formation process • Soil characterization based on rocks • Soil biological composition ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE • Environmental Impact Evaluation (EIA) • Soil or water bioremediation • Recycling non-biodegradable ítems – decomposition aids • Habitat fragmentation • Bioassays – Water or soil quality assessment • Climate temporal analysis using foraminifera, plakton, algae or diatoms. GENETICS • Cross-breeding – artificial pollination • Plant hybrids • Clonation MEDICINE MEDICINE • Pathology • Testing antioxidant activity of vitamins • Measurement of the pharmacological activity of new or chemically undefined substances • Compare protein structure and function – PROTEIN database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein) • Protease content – Homemade turbidimeter. …MEDICINE • Determination of the side-effect profile, including the degree of drug toxicity • Assessing the amount of pollutants being released by a particular source • Determining the specificity of certain enzymes to certain substrates. MICRO BIOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY • Bacteria antiobiotic resistance - evolution • UV radiation and bacteria growth. • Growth experiments – media culture • +Gram vs -Gram bacteria • Nosocomial bacteria • Lichen characterization and ecology • Fungi culturing • Comparison of micorrhizal activity in trees • Agar art CONTEST • Photography • Botanical – Animal illustration
