After going over our discussion questions in Chapter 4 (Mendelian Genetics), we broke out the old iBooks for Logal Simulations in Genetics. These simulations generate offspring from a given cross unfamiliar to the students and the students then work backwards to discover the mode of inheritance. The first simulation today was wing color of a species of butterfly and the mode of inheritance was sex-linked incomplete dominance. We will work on linkage maps again tomorrow and finish our Logal Lab to wrap the four day week.
In Selected Topics after working on our weather study, we started the Rock Lab ... includes the rock cycle, rock from Allen County and density measurements using water displacement. We will finish this lab tomorrow.
Most students are finished with the Microsoft qBASIC Guessing Game problem and moved on the Problem 6 ... writing a program that will ask multiple choice questions and keep score of correct responses. We will start checking the first of the qBASIC problems tomorrow during class.
Visited with Granny and Uncle Glen in Holland after school and took my walk down the Long Creek and back. Lots of wildlife and our bees were busy even though it was a cloudy day. Lots of goldenrod blooming in the wildlife areas I did not bushhog. Below is my best picture from my walk.
Very nice picture!! :)
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