Hardy-Weinberg c:

Given: q2=.384

• With what was given, we can find q by taking the square root of .384 which is .619.
• From q, we can find p by subtracting .619 from 1.00 which is .381.
• We can square p to find p2, which is .145.
• With all of the information we have, we can find 2pq by multiplying 2 times p times q which is .471.

What does it mean?

• What was given was q2, which is the frequency of homozygous recessive individuals.
• From that we got q, which is the frequency of recessive alleles.
• Then we found p, which is the frequency of dominant alleles.
• From p we found p2, which is the frequency of homozygous dominant individuals.
• Once we found 2pq, we found the frequency of heterozygous individuals. 

Worm Lab (Yay, wormies c:)

     In the worm lab, we tested the different containers to see which one had water, the depressant, or the stimulant. I have come to the conclusion that container A was the depressant, container B was water, and container C was the stimulant. My group and I tested all three substances by checking the pulse of a worm from each container. We checked the pulse using a microscope as one person looked through and another person checked the clock to make sure a minute went by. We tested each worm twice, gathered up the data, and took the mean and the median from our results. Container A had an average of 13.4 beats per minute, container B had 26.4 beats per minute, and container C had 28.6 beats per minute. For the median, container A had 12, B had 25.5, and C had 29. As shown in our results, container A had the lowest beats per minute and container C had the highest, and due to this, I conclude that container A was the depressant, B was the water, and C was the stimulant.

(Side note: I was unable to receive data from other groups, so this is based off of my own group's data and my calculations.)

Ecology Selfies

                               

    While I was away in Mexico for a month, I was able to capture lots of beautiful pictures for our scavenger hunt. We visited my aunt (a plant enthusiast) in Guadalajara, where I snapped a few pictures of the different plants in her front yard. My favorite are the two shown above of the big, bright yellow flower. The vivid colors intrigued me because it stood out from all of the other plants and their flowers; it was a huge, brightly colored flower surrounded by bushes of green.
                      
    Before we met up with my aunt and her pretty plants, we visited a friend of my dad's where I got to play with his grandson. He was about two years old and he led me to his small play area just behind his house where he showed me his toys. Keep in mind this is Mexico and almost every single family has their own set of farm animals, whether it be pigs, chickens, sheep, etc. This family seemed to only have a few chickens, but because the little boy's play area was outside of the house and the chickens were loose, they would sometimes invade the small area and leave behind pleasant little gifts. Thankfully those gifts were solely feathers, which the little boy would pick up and hand to me so I could see them. I know the rules said to not touch what we were photographing but how could I say 'no' to a two year old? I only managed to take one picture with the feather before the little boy asked for it back and then ran off to play with a ball. 
                     
 

    In the pictures shown above are walls containing large amounts of moss. My grandmother's house is very open, but there is a wall right in the middle of it to separate her living space and my uncle's. The brick wall is the wall that divides the house into two, and the cement wall is part of my grandmother's living space as well as where my family stays each year when we visit. Because the brick wall was recently built, when it rains the sun does not directly hit either of the walls so moss tends to grow. I tried to take a 'selfie' with the moss but I'm not an excellent 'selfie taker' so I had to include more pictures of the moss-filled walls to do them justice. 





This is just a snapshot of my scavenger hunt adventures in Mexico. I can't wait to put all of my ecology selfies together to demonstrate how big our world is, even if sometimes we don't take notice as much as we should.