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The Analysis of Pre-service Elementary Teachers' Perception on Biology Inquiry Subjects, and biology Materials in the Korea Elementary School Science Textbook (한국의 초등 과학 교과서 생명영역에 나오는 탐구 주제 및 생물 재료에 대한 초등 예비교사들의 인식 분석)

  • KIM, Dong-Ryeul
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.719-731
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    • 2017
  • The aim of this study was to analyze a group of pre-service elementary teachers experience on the cognitive terms of biology inquiry subjects, and experience on living materials related with the domain of life in the Korea elementary school science textbook. Firstly, elementary school pre-service teachers had the confidence of inquiry subjects related with the domain of life such as 'when we take breath what will happen in human body?' and 'Can we make the model of human body?' But they did have the most diffidence of 'The search for pieris rapae, a cabbage butterfly's life', 'Can we grow the little creature?' The reason why pre-service elementary teachers had diffidence of comprehending experiment procedure and planning ability was that 'they focused on understanding the scientific concepts instead of planning experiments by themselves', and 'they carried out the least amount of experiments' Secondly, elementary school pre-service teachers had never experienced biology materials related with the domain of life in the Korea elementary school biology science textbook such as 'tradescantia reflexa', 'Caddis larva', 'hydrilla verticillata', and 'Plantain lily.' According to the findings obtained from the study, the reason why they had never seen the biology materials was that they had the least opportunity of immediately observing life creatures due to memorization-intensive classes.

Protoplast-Mediated Transformation of the Filamentous Fungus Cladosporium phlei: Evidence of Tandem Repeats of the Integrative Transforming Vector

  • Kim, Jung-Ae;Kim, Jung-Mi;Kim, Hwan-Gyu;Kim, Beom-Tae;Hwang, Ki-Jun;Park, Seung-Moon;Yang, Moon-Sik;Kim, Dae-Hyuk
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.179-183
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    • 2009
  • To facilitate the genetic manipulation of Cladosporium phlei, a causal agent of leaf spot disease in timothy (Phleum pretense), protoplast-mediated transformation of C. phlei has been developed and the resulting transformants were characterized in this study. Hygromycin B resistance was applied as a dominant selection marker due to the sensitivity of C. phlei to this antibiotic. The transformation efficiency ranged from approximately 20-100 transformants per experiment. Southern blot analysis of stable transformants revealed that transformation occurred by way of stable integration of the vector DNA into the fungal chromosome. PCR analysis and plasmid rescuing of randomly selected transformants suggested that integration of tandem repeat copies of vector DNA was common. In addition, multiple integrations of the transforming vector at different chromosomal sites were also observed. The establishment of a transformation method for C. phlei facilitates strain improvement of this fungus and can be applied as an initial step in the molecular analysis of pigment production in this fungus.

Effect of pulverizing method on the particle size of matured silkworm powder

  • Kim, Su-Bae;Kim, Kee-Young;Ji, Sang-Deok;Kim, Seong-Wan;Kim, Nam-Suk;Jo, You-Young;Kim, Jong-Gil;Kim, Young-Guk;Koo, Hui-Yeon;Moon, Hyung-Chul;Seok, Young-Seek;Lee, Hyun-Tai
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.105-108
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    • 2018
  • Recently matured silkworm powder was developed by RDA. In this study, the effect of pulverizing method on the particle size of matured silkworm powder was examined. FESEM was performed to observe the morphology and to measure the particle size of silkworm powder. Particle morphology of air-jet mill pulverized powder was round and smooth, however, those of roller-mill and hammer-mill pulverized mature silkworm was more harsh and square. Particle size was varied with pulverizing technique as follows; $1.1{\mu}m$ (air-jet mill), $10{\mu}m$ (roller mill), and $120{\mu}m$ (hammer mill), respectively. A proximate analysis results of air-jet mill powder showed that crude protein, crude lipid, crude fiber, and ash was 73%, 12%, 1.95%, and 3.4%, respectively. According to our results, air-jet mell technique might be used to make a tiny matured silkworm powder.

Research Progress of Antibiotic Pollution and Adsorption Materials in Aquatic environment

  • Zheng, Kun;Deng, ChengXun;Deng, Xu;Yu, ZhiMin
    • Journal of Urban Science
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2019
  • China is the great powers of use and production of antibiotics.The current process of sewage treatment plants can not effectively remove antibiotics in water. Chinese scholars have detected different kinds of antibiotics in major waters of the country, which have potential harm to human body. Among all kinds of antibiotic treatment technologies, adsorption removal technology has the advantages of simple operation, low cost and high removal efficiency. It is a widely concerned antibiotic removal technology. However, at present, few materials have been put into practical application, and more materials with low cost and high efficiency need to be found. Different adsorptive materials have different adsorptivity to different antibiotics. For different antibiotics, different adsorptive materials can be integrated in the future, and the theory can be extended to application.

Promoter Analysis of the Cell Surface-abundant and Hypoviral-regulated Cryparin Gene from Cryphonectria parasitica

  • Kim, Myoung-Ju;Kwon, Bo-Ra;Park, Seung-Moon;Chung, Hea-Jong;Yang, Moon-Sik;Churchill, Alice C.L.;Van Alfen, Neal K.;Kim, Dae-Hyuk
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.496-502
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    • 2008
  • Cryparin, encoded as a single copy gene (Crp) of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica, is the most abundant protein produced by this fungus. However, its accumulation is decreased remarkably in C. parastica strains containing the double-stranded (ds) RNA virus Cryphonectria hypovirus 1. To characterize the transcriptional regulatory element(s) for strong expression and viral regulation, promoter analysis was conducted. Serial deletion of the Crp promoter region resulted in a step-wise decrease in promoter activity, indicating a localized distribution of genetic elements in the cryparin promoter. Promoter analysis indicated two positive and a repressive cis-acting elements. Among them, the promoter region between nt -1,282 and -907 appeared to be necessary for hypoviral-mediated down-regulation. An electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) on the corresponding promoter region (-1,282/-907) indicated two regions at (-1,257/-1,158) and (-1,107/-1,008) with the characteristic AGGAGGA-N42-GAGAGGA and its inverted repeat TCCTCTC-N54-TCCTCCT, respectively, appeared to be specific binding sites for cellular factors.