Allele superlatives, Transpiration Lab and Structures are ready!

Earlier this week we did our required lab on Population Genetics studying genetic drift, selection and heterozygote advantage. Below are the Superlative Winners from Second Block AP (not a part of the lab, but fun!) ... Categories included Most Likely to Succeed (in Fertilization), Least Likely to Succeed, Most Likely to get you Grounded by your Parents, Most Colorful, Plain Jane/Joe, and most Environmentally Sound ... can you pick them out!

Congratulations ... Sara, Caroline, Hannah, David and Caleb!

Today in AP, we started our Transpiration Lab.  We tested Brussels Sprouts to four conditions ... wind, mist, light and room conditions.  Students used potometers (tubing with a glass pipette) to measure the amount of water moving through plants under each condition.  We were able to run the experiment and collect data.  Tomorrow we will analyze the data and examine some cross-section slides of monocots and dicots.  Our Drosophila continues ...

In Selected Topics, students worked hard to finish their towers for testing tomorrow.  Lots of good thinking and planning!  Will have the results tomorrow!

Played South Warren yesterday evening in the rain and won 16-1.  We had 11 hits but, South Warren had 9 errors ... not good!  Our game with Blackman HS (TN) tonight was cancelled due to rain. We play Monroe County tomorrow.

Lastly, out high school softball team is ranked #1 in the latest Kentucky coaches poll.

http://www.kyhighschoolsoftball.com/rankings.htm

This is the first time our team has ever been ranked higher than third.  It is only a ranking and we have a lot of work to do but, we have had lots of good teams and this team is very talented.  Beating Mercy has vaulted us in the spotlight and I am glad it is now rather than later ... it will give us time to feel the pressure and get use to it.  It is a long road to post-season ... we are going to keep working and be better in June than we are now.

Spring Break in two more days!