BIOLOGY AND ALLIES SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT IDEAS AGRICULTUR

BIOLOGY AND ALLIES SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT IDEAS

AGRICULTUR

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 O 2 -CO 2 production rates Positive or negative allelopathy in plants. Stomatal density and pollution Temperature, salinity and p. H effect on…

EDAPHOLOGY

EDAPHOLOGY • Soil formation process • Soil characterization based on rocks • Soil biological composition

ENVIRONMENTA L 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