The purpose of the methods project is to test whether one's written experiment is sufficient to be replicated by another party. This is an important skill to have in the field of biology because any work that is published needs to be able to stand alone; there is no explaining what you've done, only the paper is able to guide someone else. This project needs to be reasonable enough for someone to try, detailed enough for someone to understand and thorough enough for someone to reach the same results.
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