Genetics and Biotechnology is finishing up our review tournament ... we spent most of the time on a second look at respiration, focusing on anaerobic respiration and the intermediate products and the enzymes involved ... especially phosphofructokinase. This led to a discussion on allosteric enzymes and feedback loops. Tomorrow we will wrap up this discussion with a trip via internet to PDB and JMOL to look at some structures. We also had a morning quiz with a couple of Hardy-Weinberg problems.
Over the last two days, I had to email parents that we will not be going on our NYC IV trip in the spring. I could not get the cost of this trip on President's Weekend as low as last time, in fact, not close ... no affordable direct flight ... I tried to reduce costs by leaving early on Saturday but with a 1-stop flight would not get there until after noon. Just too expensive for 48 hours in the NYC! For the price we were at, two people could go for the weekend on SW Air on a direct flight, stay outside of midtown and pick up tickets at TKTS at TImes Square. We have taken students on over a dozen trips and this was the first time I could not make it work ... a little depressing!
In Selected Topics, we worked on evolution ... how organisms change over time ... from the flu virus to elephants, the story of Darwin, isolation and gene pools. We had a good discussion with some great questions with good discussion on several issue. Tomorrow, we will continue our study of natural selection and animal science.
Tyler and Presley below won our Best of Kentucky - Daniel Boone Gunpowder Making Championship. Their stuck to their research and it paid off!
In computer science we revisited out "Guess the Number between 1-100" problem using a GUI. We had a good start and will get in some good Visual BASIC programming before Thanksgiving break.
We had softball conditioning after school ... lifted weighs and did a little running. We had 20 players attending.
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