In your own words, provide a summary of your assigned paper that accurately describes. It is important to make this readable. Note that simply following the exact structure of the original article may not result in the best summary. The summary should address the following points. ? The central question your paper sought to address and its significance. ? What was the answer that the author(s) arrived at ? How the author(s) arrived at that answer ? Be very brief here. Listing the reagents is not required, focused on general methods.

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Assignment Instructions and Format Your paper should have three major headings described below. Grammar/spelling and writing style will be assessed throughout your paper (see rubric). 1. Paper Summary In your own words, provide a summary of your assigned paper that accurately describes. It is important to make this readable. Note that simply following the exact structure of the original article may not result in the best summary. The summary should address the following points. ? The central question your paper sought to address and its significance. ? What was the answer that the author(s) arrived at ? How the author(s) arrived at that answer ? Be very brief here. Listing the reagents is not required, focused on general methods. 2. Analysis ? Your evaluation of the quality and validity of the results informed by your experience in the lab. ? In particular, make sure to discuss how and why the authors used the Michaelis-Menten parameters Vmax and Km. ? Also, discuss whether or not their use of Vmax and Km and the specificity constant Vmax/Km is valid and/or useful. ? In some papers, the authors may also have examined enzyme activity too. Contrast that using that type of measurement versus using Vmax and Km. 3. Reflection ? Reflect on this paper in light of the paper in Assignment #2, Nannipieri, P., Trasar-Cepeda, C. & Dick, R. P. Soil enzyme activity: a brief history and biochemistry as a basis for appropriate interpretations and meta-analysis. Biol. Fertil. Soils 54, 1119 (2018) ? Are the comments made by Nannipieri et al. reflected in your assigned paper? ? If not, how does that affect the papers conclusion, if at all, in your mind? Length Assignment #3 should be no longer than five pages, double space not including figures (1-2 figures, if needed) and references as needed (1-2 references in addition to the assigned paper, if needed). Based on the allocated points for the three sections, two pages for the Paper Summary and one page each...

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