Title - Give an appropriate title to your report
Abstract - It should include the importance of your experiment, a
brief summary of the main findings of your experiment, and a brief
interpretation to those results.
Introduction - explains the importance of the exercise, the value of the
content, and its place in the general field of molecular biology, that is, the
introduction should offer perspective on the detail to follow.
The objective of the experiment should go in the last paragraph of the
introduction.
Cite references to support the background information that you are giving to
the reader.
Methods –
- a copy of the protocol(s). Steps of the protocols should be changed to the
past tense when necessary.
- recipes of reagents ie, (what is 2x SDS loading??, this is an exercise in searching
CURRENT PROTOCOLS on CD, in the library)
- step by step rationale of the protocol in parallel to the protocol
Results – Give a description of your results which you should
support it with your figures, tables, blots, graphs, titers, etc.
Figures (photographs of gels, titers, blots, graphs, tables of values, etc.)
should be labeled. A caption for each figure should be written in which you
describe exactly what you are showing to the reader.
Results should not contain discussion or commentary.
Discussion – discuss the interpretation of results, problems with protocols or
results, deviations from protocols, the value of results in reference to the perspective
of the Introduction in parallel to the Results.
In many cases you should support the interpretation of your results with work
of other people, therefore you should cite the reference.
References - Cite no less than three references
