Science Homework Help

Need help with my bio Lab evolution, see attached. Please follow
attached Assignment guideline and review grading rubric. Thanks.

General

¨ Clear and concisely written, active voice

¨ Not excessively below or above 250 words


¨ Latin species names are always italicized and capitalized appropriately: (Felis catus)

Title Formatting

¨ Broad topic (what is this study about?) included

¨ Study system (species or group of species studied) included


¨ Brief result (what was your finding?) included


¨ Only first word and proper nouns are capitalized, title not underlined

Abstract formatting

• ¨ 1-3 Sentence introduction that broadly introduces the main topic
• ¨ Linker or fill in the gap sentence (what knowledge is missing that this study will help fill in)
• ¨ Specific question addressed
• ¨ Brief 1 sentence method statement if important for reader’s comprehension
• ¨ Result statement (fail to reject null hypothesis or support alternative hypothesis + what that hypothesis was)
• ¨ Discussion starts narrow with your specific findings and then broadens out to address big picture concepts or ideas
• ¨ This is a Nature formatted abstract so NO in-text references, statistics, or figure references Figures
• ¨ 1 figure is presented and is similar to your approved mock figure above. (2 double bar graph; expected vs observed phenotype frequencies for wildtype and ebony flies)
• ¨ Figure is formatted as instructed in Figure and Statistics Packet including:

o Properly labeled axes with units where appropriate and axes lines
o No gridlines, 3D, or color (must be black and white) with hollow or solid bars, legend present for this

figure
¨ NO figure titles, only a figure caption BELOW each figure

Figure Captions

• ¨ 1 Figure caption below figure
• ¨ Caption labeled appropriately (Figure 1)
• ¨ First sentence describes figure (no numbers, a statement that easily describes to the reader what they are looking at
• ¨ Second sentence is a brief result (Which hypothesis do you support or fail to reject, what does that mean?)
• ¨ Statistics (test-statistic AND p-value) are provided parenthetically at end of results statement (X2=????, p=????)
• ¨ Reviewed Figure and Statistics packet to confirm proper formatting of written caption and statistics presentation
• References
• ¨ 2 relevant JOURNAL references cited in CSE format
• o You can cite books, chapters, newspapers, websites as well, but you MUST also cite 2 journal articles