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Plannes for my summer holidays

I have been planning my summer vacation for 2018 since last year because my mountain club is planning a commemorative activity to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of the main Paine Horn in the Torres del Paine National Park, which is our property. With my club, we are planning 3 sports activities, the first is to climb the Almirante Nieto hill or the Amistad hill or both; The second activity is to ascend the main Horn of Paine; And the third activity is an expedition inside the southern ice field of Patagonia. Being realistic, I will participate in the first activity, because my experience does not allow me to practice in a very safe way an ascent to a hill with traditional climbing or cross a glacier, and these activities require a lot of equipment that I do not have. Thinking about climbing the hill Amistad in Torres del Paine excites me because this hill does not have a published ascent, and if we can get its summit, we can publish your route and be your first as

A subject I've enjoyed studying this semester

I don't know if it counts like a subject, but on this semester, I've joined on an investigation laboratory to starts my unity of investigation, which belongs to my study plan.  There I'm on charge of a PhD student who works on his thesis making transgenic plants, using techniques of genetic modification with bacteria in plants, developing resilient plants to saline culture, looking for the genes responsible in the stress on them when they are cultivated in this type of medium, in models of Arabidopsis, tomatoes, kiwi, and tobacco. In the lab I learned how works genetic engineering; and techniques for add genes inside the genome of some organisms, in vitro culture and DNA and RNA extraction. I like this lab because I learned the process to transform plants for the interest of the researcher, and that involve adding the vector with the gene of interest on different types of bacteria, there works with E. Coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and transform the

Gregor Mendel

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Gregor Johann Mendel   (20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was a scientist,   Augustinian   friar   and abbot of   St. Thomas' Abbey   in   Brno ,   Margraviate of Moravia . Mendel was born in a German-speaking family   in the   Silesian   part of the   Austrian Empire   (today's   Czech Republic ) and gained recognition as the founder of the modern   science   of   genetics 30 years later of his dead . Mendel's   pea   plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of   heredity , now referred to as the laws of   Mendelian inheritance . Mendel studied the inheritance of seven different features in peas, including height, flower color, seed color, and seed shape. To do so, he first established pea lines with two different forms of a feature, such as tall vs. short height. He grew these lines for generations until they were pure-breeding, always produced offspring identical to the parent, then bred them to each other and observed how the tr