All students were present for starting our fruit fly lab this morning. We have F1 flies so this lab last about two weeks. We use to buy pure mutant cultures which meant we had to expand cultures to get virgin flies and then do our parent cross which also required virgin females. This added an extra month to the experiment ... ordering F1 cultures saves a lot of time. We are using sepia eye, vestigial wing, and white eye mutants in these crosses. Fly sorting picts below:
In Selected Topics, we studied arthropods, review the invertebrates we studied and watched a short film on giant squid and whales.
We have a good start in Microsoft Visual BASIC. Several students are working on their third program. We will be able to check the first set of problems before Thanksgiving break.
We got home late because Sue Neal had a meeting on writing at our high school and we rode together today.
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