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Oil Spill in a Test Tube

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Students develop a test tube model of an oil spill in order to experiment with conditions needed for bioremediation. They apply the principals of experimental design by analyzing a research article on the EXXON Valdez bioremediation efforts a

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9th - Higher Ed
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Science
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