Genetics tomorrow, we will set up our F1 cross of fruit flies. It will take a couple of weeks to start and finish this lab. We will do a Chi Square Analysis on our F2 flies at the conclusion of this lab. We are still waiting for our fastplants to seed in our Population Genetics Lab. We will hand in our Animal Behavior lab tomorrow.
In Selected Topics, we worked on our animal unit and classification of animals. Tomorrow we should wrap up invertebrates. Lots of drawings and some video clips.
A lot of student out of Computer Programming today as we limped through our first Microsoft Visual BASIC problem.
We met with science students wanting to go on MarineLab VIII (Spring break 2013). It appears we will have enough students to go if we can wrap up the logistics. Our first AP Bio trip was in 1993 and since then we have had seven trips by school bus / camping to the Keys and three trips to NYC (via air on President's Day weekend). These trips get harder and harder to plan and make affordable in the austere times we are in. Not like the old days ... get a bus and head out! We have had over 200 students and several teachers take these trips. School should be more than the questions at the end of the chapter ... true in 1993 and still true.
Check out Mr. Byrn's photos (over 900) from our last trip to the Keys in 2008.
http://www.byrnphotography.com/Academics/2008-ACS-Marine-LabKeys-Trip/5117234_kzztLN#!i=308927971&k=yHncN
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