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Water Management, Imsa Fusion
Water Management, Imsa Fusion
An Epidemiological Approach to Addressing Food Insecurity
Objectives:
- Develop a technique to measure the porosity of soil.
- Explain how a high water table can reduce crop yields.
- Design and test a drainage tiling system.
Row Spacing Models, Imsa Fusion
Row Spacing Models, Imsa Fusion
An Epidemiological Approach to Addressing Food Insecurity
Objectives:
- Identify multiple row spacing models used by soybean farmers and determine how these planting arrangements impact crop yield.
- Explore how row spacing influences the amount of access that a plant has to the natural resources it needs to grow.
- Recommend a row spacing model that considers overall yield, economic efficiency, and potential environmental threats for a hypothetical farmer.
Soil Science, Imsa Fusion
Soil Science, Imsa Fusion
An Epidemiological Approach to Addressing Food Insecurity
Objectives:
- Understand that soil is composed of inorganic and organic solid material, water, and air.·Investigate the properties of the inorganic solid components of soil: sand, silt, and clay.
- Recognize that varying proportions of sand, silt, and clay in a soil impact the soil’s ability to hold and transmit water. Experimentally determine the soil texture of a local soil sample.
- Determine the chemical composition of a local soil sample for pH, nitrate, phosphorus, and potassium levels.
- Analyze a given soil’s ability to support crops such as corn, soybeans, wheat, and oats.
- Provide recommendations for amending a given soil to support the …
Biological Variation, Imsa Fusion
Biological Variation, Imsa Fusion
An Epidemiological Approach to Addressing Food Insecurity
Objectives:
- Identify different phenotypes of corn (maize) kernels.
- Use ratios and sampling to determine which of two different ears of corn is most likely to have produced a given sample of kernels.
- Use Punnett Squares to determine the genotypes of the “parents” that produced the different kernel samples.
- Compare and contrast traditional selective breeding techniques with genetically engineering a desired trait in corn.
- Model the regulation of gene expression in a hypothetical cell.
- Discuss the potential role that epigentic variation may play in improving corn crops of the future.