Friday, October 8, 2010

Bloopers

I grade about 150 papers each week and sometimes it helps to get unintentionally funny answers.

Q: What is the area of this bacterial colony?
A: 18 hours (underlined, too)

Q: What is the diameter of this bacterium?
A: 3 micromolar

Q: How many bacteria are there in this colony
A: 10^-7 (yes, fractional number of living things. w00t!)

Q: Define recombination
A: A process by which chromosomes exchange information with each other (Facebook for bacteria. EM profile pics, anyone?)

 
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