Students will learn about the six essential nutrients in the body and their purposes. They will analyze the effects of surpluses and deficiencies in the body of various nutrients.
High School students will learn more about fats in the body and why they are essential. They will also analyze the effects of different types of fats and making healthy fat choices.
How do agronomists use data to diagnose nutrient deficiencies and make prescriptions to improve soil health? In this lesson, students will act as detectives to investigate soybeans displaying unusual symptoms, and combine their visual evidence with soil data to identify nutrient deficiencies.
This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:
"Phosphorus is essential for life to function. It is a critical component of the energy metabolism molecules, genetic materials, and cell structures of all life. Phosphorus only enters natural ecosystems through the slow weathering of stone. Then microbes help maintain and regulate phosphorus by cycling it between its organic and inorganic forms. Understanding microbial phosphorus cycling is critical to many fields of study, like ecology and agriculture. However, researchers lack a comprehensive understanding of the phosphorus cycling genes microbes use, but the recently developed curated phosphorus cycling database (PCycDB) could help close that gap. PCycDB covers 10 phosphorus metabolic processes and 139 gene families, including several that have been missed elsewhere. Testing PCycDB with simulated datasets revealed high annotation accuracy, positive predictive value, sensitivity, specificity, and negative predictive value..."
The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.
High School students will learn more about vitamins & minerals in the body and why they are essential. They will also analyze the effects of the different types of vitamins & minerals and the purpose of varying types.