Title: “Exploring Polytene Chromosomes: A Synopsis of Recent Studies on Inversions and Translocations in Insects”

Go to www.pubmed.com   or the new site   at   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Links to an external site.
In the search window enter the terms: “polytene chromosome” with the word  inversion  or with the word  translocation
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Filter articles for  2 criteria:       A) Date range: the years 2012-2024, )          B) secondly the article you select to write about  must be a “journal article”- that contains a material and methods section within the authors paper.      Reviews and Techniques papers usually don’t have this.
You are looking for a paper where the authors went out and did experiments on fruit flies or other insects and extracted their polytene chromosomes from their salivary glands in order to do their studies.
Select each of those criteria from top left panel of web page;
Once you find an article that interest you……..download the pdf of the article…………read the article
Read the journal article about polytene chromosomes, take notes as you read it
Then—> put together a — TYPE WRITTEN— two page double spaced ( 1 inch margins) synopsis/summary
of the article you read .
Provide a separate title page with the name of the journal article you are writing a synopsis for and who the authors are..
Provide a separate page for citations and sources for “quoted” or paraphrased sections of what you wrote.