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1.4 Working with Spiders

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    • What is an experiment you would conduct with spiders in a lab and what would you hope to learn?

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    • Amino acids as the building block for the silk protein are generally colorless. Is there any way that a spider could be genetically modified, or somehow the prey be injected with something that would result in the spider producing a web with different colored silk? I would then love to learn if this has any implications on the web structure (both integrity and its ability to attract prey) when compared to a normal web.

    • brilliant! id love to see that as well

    • I would look at other environmental conditions, like in nature. Change elements like humidity, heat, wind and see if there are changes in web design.

    • I wonder if there were 2 spiders in the frame, would they cooperate?

    • I wonder what role frequencies play (if any)in the tautness and placement of thread? Peter Witt at NCState did experiments about spiders recognizing the difference between prey hitting the web and a raindrop hitting it.

    • I d like to learn how a spider reacts when a portion/strand of the web is disrupted. Would it mend the damaged portion or knit additional support structures.

    • The difference in terms of spider web chemical composition depending on which kind of spyder did it, I guess. Also, what if we change the enviormental temperature or humidity or pressure?

    • Amino acids as the building block for the silk protein are generally colorless. Is there any way that a spider could be genetically modified, or somehow the prey be injected with something that would result in the spider producing a web with different colored silk? I would then love to learn if this has any implications on the web structure (both integrity and its ability to attract prey) when compared to a normal web.

    • Spider eats prey and process of making slik start in spider body, I would like to see the detailed video on how skil is made from spider.

    • Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

      An experiment to construct on a lab with a spider is to time how long it takes to build its web.

      I would put the spider in a box with a glass top.

      I would swat flies and open the glass lid on occassion to feed the flies, and count the ones fed.

      Over the course of days or hours, i would wait until the spider seems to have finished a web before ending the experiment.

    • I would like to see the visual representation of web formation.

    • Amino acids as the building block for the silk protein are generally colorless. Is there any way that a spider could be genetically modified, or somehow the prey be injected with something that would result in the spider producing a web with different colored silk? I would then love to learn if this has any implications on the web structure (both integrity and its ability to attract prey) when compared to a normal web

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