In Genetics today, we worked on pedigrees. Tomorrow begins our Logal Simulation Lab ... modes of inheritance in which students discover the mode of inheritance when two organisms and their progeny are crossed.
Selected Topics in Science did a lab on separation science. We discussed all the ways you can separate molecules in a mixture ... centrifugation, electrophoresis, filtering, distillation and chromatography. Today's lab had a forensic theme and involve separating the different mixtures of ink found in black ink using water as our solvent ... a paper chromatography lab. It was fun and took the entire block. Tomorrow we move on to evolution.
In Computer Science we started to work on using the following commands ... TAB( ), SPC ( ), FOR/NEXT and READ/DATA. We have several problems to practice these new commands.
Took a walk after school and took lots of pictures. Today was sunny and not too hot. There were lots of bees and butterflies out in the fall wildflowers (wingstem, ironweed, mist flower, jewelweed, snakeroot and lots of goldenrod. Our second crop buckwheat is also blooming so we are in the middle of a fall nectar flow. Below, I was able to get a couple of pictures of a question mark butterfly ... an angelwing ... it looked like a dead leaf on the wingstem it was hiding on. I rotated the picture to see the butterfly better.
We have acres of wingstem on this farm and it is in full bloom. The bees ... honeybees and bumblebees were collecting nectar this afternoon.
Also, took some pictures of the passionflower (maypop) seed pods. They are about the size of a very large egg. The pods are edible.
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