Color Blindness
In this project we each made individual projects to explain different aspects of color vision or colorblindness. For this project I made a dry eyeball dissection so that someone could reach the same understanding without having to mess with the messier parts of the eyeball. I made the artificial eyeball out of a tennis ball and other commonly found house hold items. But it was not just the eyeball without instruction infarct most of my time was spent orchestrating a fluid series of instructions for the viewer to have an entertaining experiment. If I were to do this project again I would've made the eyeball dissection more professional because while the message was thoroughly delivered the aesthetics was little to be desired. in other words I would've redone the structure of the eyeball.
Cell Division Animation
Key:
- outer pipe cleaner circle is the cell wall
- pipe cleaners twisted together is the centrosome and microtubes
- Velcro X's is the chromosomes
- Green twist ties in center is the nucleus
Mitosis happens when there are cells that are damaged or otherwise need replacing so during mitosis it replaces those damaged cells. The stages of mitosis is Prophase, Prometaphase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, and Cytokinesis. each stage is approximately nine minutes each. This relates to what we were doing earlier with planarian regeneration and this is how cell regenerate. Understanding this process helps us understand how a human might heal and can also helps us pinpoint how to keep someone health whole healing.
Terminology learned: Prophase, Prometaphase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, Cytokinesis, Mitosis, microtubes, cromatids, and centrosomes
Terminology learned: Prophase, Prometaphase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, Cytokinesis, Mitosis, microtubes, cromatids, and centrosomes
From Seed to Stomach
The main point of this project was to create an experiment that either helped the plants environment or help humans grow plants in a more efficient manner. My experiment took the stand of more efficient plant growth with a focus on how we would use this in space travel. Basically how my experiment worked was by cutting leaves into small bits than having them absorb a more dense carbon solution. This makes the leaves sink then I put them into the light of my choice either a blue-red growing light or natural light. Then the leaves absorbed light and carbon which made oxygen that makes them float.
The main question is which light is more effective for space travel the results that I got proved that the blue-red light did better than the sunlight. However, I had a relatively small population to base my experiment off of and to get a more accurate number I needed to increase the size of this group. The results that I got was 6/10 disks in blue-red light and 4/10 in sunlight. But what does this really mean? That is where the math aspect of this project comes in in math we learned the chi-squared statistic. This tells us if the experiment that we did get better than average results; when I did this I got 0.8 which means about 30% of the normal test will get higher results.
The main question is which light is more effective for space travel the results that I got proved that the blue-red light did better than the sunlight. However, I had a relatively small population to base my experiment off of and to get a more accurate number I needed to increase the size of this group. The results that I got was 6/10 disks in blue-red light and 4/10 in sunlight. But what does this really mean? That is where the math aspect of this project comes in in math we learned the chi-squared statistic. This tells us if the experiment that we did get better than average results; when I did this I got 0.8 which means about 30% of the normal test will get higher results.
Photosynthesis interactive: floating leaves
The purpose of this experiment was to see a real time reaction of how photosynthesis works. We would then see how it would then react to the change of environment. The data that I collected was rather consistent because for 15 out of the sixteen minutes nothing happened and only in the last minute only one leaf disk rose. In my experiment I used white light and the container was 5 inches away and looking back on it I should've left it in a place where it had a larger array of light waves because certain plants take certain light waves where the white light couldn't supply.
Mini experiment Monocots vs Dicots
The plants that I grew basically died because of the tea which was unexpected. I had expected it to grow quicker because the tea bag was supposed to release nutrients. However I the tea bag had a citric acid component which when the seed absorbed it they died. This would also explain why the other seeds did better which is because the citric acid component got diluted.
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We did this to prove our predictions on what was a dicot or monocot in between corn and mung beans (mung beans sown on the slide show to the left). This will help us learn if we were right in our previous investigations and if no what we should've looked for.
But there is also an experimentation aspect of this too with the variables of amount of water, light, and quality of water. In my experiment I had 25 ml of water with 50-60% light accessibility and the water was contaminated with a tea bag. I was trying to see if the beans would take in any nutrients from the tea. At the end one of the beans I was growing had produced one cotyledon making it a monocot where a dicot would have two cotyledon's. This would prove my prediction correct because I predicted that the bean was a monocot and the corn was a dicot. The first few days I think that the bean didn't grow because the tea content was simply way to strong for the plant to live in. I think because of the strong tea content that it damaged the bean beyond repair where it only had the energy to shed the exterior coat. However when the strength of the tea lessened after I put the other bean in the cup they were able to grow a little bit more because they got to the state where the cotyledon was growing. When I finally got something to grow I noticed that the bean had only one initial growth. This goes well with my predicted because that would make the bean a Monocot. I predicted that the bean was a monocot because when I cut in half I noticed only one spot where it could be then I did the same with the corn and it has two possible places for the cotyledon. |
From seed to stomach
The main point of this project was to create an experiment that either helped the plants environment or help humans grow plants in a more efficient manner. My experiment took the stand of more efficient plant growth with a focus on how we would use this in space travel. Basically how my expriement worked was by cutting leaves into small bits than having them absorb a more dense carbon solution. This makes the leaves sink then I put them into the light of my choice either a blue-red growing light or natural light. Then the leaves absorbed light and carbon which made oxygen that makes them float.
The main question is which light is more effective for space travel the results that I got proved that the blue-red light did better than the sunlight. However, I had a relatively small population to base my experiment off of and to get a more accurate number I needed to increase the size of this group. The results that I got was 6/10 disks in blue-red light and 4/10 in sunlight. But what does this really mean? That is where the math aspect of this project comes in in math we learned the chi-squared statistic. This tells us if the experiment that we did get better than average results; when I did this I got 0.8 which means about 30% of the normal test will get higher results
The main question is which light is more effective for space travel the results that I got proved that the blue-red light did better than the sunlight. However, I had a relatively small population to base my experiment off of and to get a more accurate number I needed to increase the size of this group. The results that I got was 6/10 disks in blue-red light and 4/10 in sunlight. But what does this really mean? That is where the math aspect of this project comes in in math we learned the chi-squared statistic. This tells us if the experiment that we did get better than average results; when I did this I got 0.8 which means about 30% of the normal test will get higher results