Whoa ... Some students must have had a great Labor Day Weekend or maybe it was the grey and rainy day today but a few students look like the could use a nap. However, we geared up for a four day week!
In Genetics we are going to study what happens when genes are linked on the same chromosome. We did a linkage problem today to calculate how far apart three genes are on the X chromosome by calculating the number of cross-overs from a genetic cross. Today was the famous Johnny Unitas problem where the football booster club try to improve their foodball team through some genetic manipulation but instead, helps all the girl teams. One linkage problem down and one each day this week ... tomorrow the Tennessee Derby Linkage problem. Our seniors finished their test today. Tomorrow also, we are going to looking at some ears of Indian corn to determine the parental crosses.
Selected Topics continued our unit on earth science by starting 7 days of weather ... studying weather maps and forecasting using weather maps from noaa.org and weather.com. We did a little singing today with "DNA Baby" making a tour to selected classrooms.
Computer Programming started working with Microsoft qBASIC. Our first set of problems are pretty easy ... ending with the "Guess a number between 1-100" problem. These problems continue tomorrow.
Took a walk in a light rain this evening ... ran up on and almost stepped on a half grown raccoon. I must be getting more stealthy. Some of the seed I planted on Saturday has already germinated after the 3 inches of rain in the last 48 hours ... it was a great rain ... not to much at a time ... just a steady rain for two days.
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