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#You need to prepare 2 methanol solutions for lab today: a) 300mL of 50% (v/v) methanol and b) 200mL of 25% (v/v) methanol.  You have been supplied with 100% methanol and deionized water as well as graduated cylinders and beakers of the appropriate sizes, a magnetic stirrer and Teflon stir bars.  How would you use these materials to prepare the two methanol solutions?  Note that this question requires more than just showing the math involved.  You need to write the steps involved in preparing the solutions, including when and how you use the provided materials.   
#You need to prepare 2 methanol solutions for lab today: a) 300mL of 50% (v/v) methanol and b) 200mL of 25% (v/v) methanol.  You have been supplied with 100% methanol and deionized water as well as graduated cylinders and beakers of the appropriate sizes, a magnetic stirrer and Teflon stir bars.  How would you use these materials to prepare the two methanol solutions?  Note that this question requires more than just showing the math involved.  You need to write the steps involved in preparing the solutions, including when and how you use the provided materials.   
#Practice converting between the following units by writing your answers in decimal form and in scientific notation: [[Image:BISC110.1.3.jpg]]
#Practice converting between the following units by writing your answers in decimal form and in scientific notation: [[Image:BISC110.1.3.jpg]]
#For each of the following situations, please describe what you would do. <br>
#You have been given a stock glucose solution with a concentration of 100mg/mL.  To perform the glucose assay in lab today, you must dilute the 100mg/mL stock solution of glucose to concentrations of 80mg/mL, 60mg/mL, 40mg/mL, and 20mg/mL.  You need to prepare 1mL of each dilution.  Explain how you would make the 4 dilutions from the glucose stock solution.
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a. You just spilled Tetrahymena on your arm. <br>
#The molecular weight of glucose is 180g/mol. To prepare a stock solution of glucose, you dissolve 1.8g of glucose in water to a final volume of 1.0L. This stock solution is then diluted as follows: 50mL of the stock solution is added to 450mL of water, and then 1.0mL of the diluted solution is added to 99mL of water. What is the µM concentration of the final solution?
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;b. You just finished pipetting some water with a 10ml serologic pipet. Where do you put the pipet?<br><BR>
#You are writing a research report and you need to describe the concentration of methyl green stain on the ''Tetrahymena'' you show in a photomicrograph. The concentration of methyl green in the bottle was 5% and you added 100 μL of it to 9.9ml of an acidic buffer to make a working dilution of stain. You then combined 10 μL of that diluted stain with 40 μL of your diluted cells and put a few microliters of that mixture on the slide from which you took your photo. What was the effective (final) concentration of the stain?<br><BR>
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