Fast Plant blooming and Hang time ...

In Genetics today after our morning quiz on the immune system, we handed out our Friday Caption (this week on our transformation lab).  We made bee sticks to pollinate our blooming fast plants.  Students pretended to be bees and randomly pollinated our plants.  We will see if we end up with gene frequencies staying the same in the next generation.  We also started our brine shrimp lab and will continue this lab tomorrow testing eggs hatching at different concentrations of salt in water.

Fast plant's blooms below ...  http://www.fastplants.org/how_to_grow/pollinating.php

Below the best transformation lab plates ... LB/Amp and LB/Amp/Xgal from the + tubes ... from our genetis lab yesterday ... Hayden and Cameron's plates.

In Selected Topics we did a mini-lab on gravity and hangtime.  Congrats to Josh (stayed in the air for .39 seconds, best ever in Selected Topics)  We tested six students and calculated the time they were in the air by how the jumped in a standing jump.  T = square root of  (2d/g) ... where gravity is 10m per second squared.  We also continued on our Superstructure lab.  Crunch day will be on Friday.

Computer programming is working on the Josh lottery problem.  Should finish this difficult sort problem tomorrow.

Got home in time to cut two buckets of sunflowers to take to school and take a walk to Long Creek.

First freeze is predicted tonight.