Sweet C. elegans

As issues of food disparity continue to worsen across America, research into the impact of lifelong high sugar consumption become more and more crucial. We studied this by observing the reproduction habits of C. elegans when exposed to a high sugar diet. We exposed our C. elegans to low and high amounts of dextrose and counted how many eggs had been laid in a fraction of their plates after two incubation periods. We found that the amount of eggs in an observed fraction of our 0.2M dextrose plates had decreased by half after Incubation 2. Due to various obstacles, we only determined how many eggs had been laid in our control plates after Incubation 2, and do not have data on the amount of eggs laid in those plates after Incubation 1, nor on how many eggs had been laid in the 1.85M dextrose plates after either incubation period.