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April 23, 2010 | 8:43 PM |
Ms. Lindsey Tuominen
(Scientist/Mentor)
Schneidsz, thanks for uploading your lab report. I looked through it and I think you did a great job of explaining your hypotheses, outlining the data you collected, and drawing conclusions about your hypotheses based on the data. Way to go! It sounds like you learned quite a bit by running this experiment, and I hope you enjoyed it too! This will be my last post to your team, so I hope you have a good end to your school year. I enjoyed working with all of Team Volleyball and wish you the best of luck in the future! |
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April 23, 2010 | 3:14 AM |
schneidsz
(Team Member)
Lab report We now have a lab report uploaded to this site. Hopefully it will be helpful and informative about our experiment. Thank you!! |
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April 20, 2010 | 12:25 AM |
Farewell and Best Wishes As this research project is now in the final stages of wrapping-up, we wish to thank everyone who participated in this inquiry; the students, mentors, teachers and others behind the scenes. We appreciate all of your efforts and contributions to this online learning community. Scientific exploration is a process of discovery that can be fun! There are many unanswered questions about plants just waiting for new scientists to consider, investigate, and share. Please come back and visit the PlantingScience Research Gallery Archive anytime to view this project in the future. You can search the Archive by key word, team name, topic, or school name. Good bye for now. Warm regards, The PlantingScience team |
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April 19, 2010 | 3:16 AM |
Daniel
(Team Member)
Today we are doing a lab report on our experiment, I hope I will be able to upload it. |
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March 31, 2010 | 5:28 AM |
Ms. Lindsey Tuominen
(Scientist/Mentor)
Last step! It sounds like you've made it to the last step in your experiment, Team Volleyball. You have done a great job recording all your experimental data -- very detailed, that's wonderful! Now that you have all this data, the last step to think about (and, if you like, you can fill it in on the Research Information section) is what conclusions you want to draw from your research. In this step, you basically decide whether your research predictions were correct or not. It's important to connect your answer to the data you collected and back to your Research Question. Overall, what did you learn about your question by doing this experiment? You are essentially interpreting your data for other people who might want to try to replicate your work in the future. It's been fun working with you, Team Volleyball! I hope you've enjoyed working on your own experiment. |
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March 31, 2010 | 4:00 AM |
Daniel
(Team Member)
Answer Question Ummm. I was just refering to the "mixed" plant as a plant with random traits. I was not refering to it as actual quantitative data. Hopefully this helped you with your question. As for your second question, we are not replanting the seeds. This is the end of the experiment. We are doing one final wrap-up project, to understand and evaluate our experiment. I'm not sure whether or not we will get a chance to post our results or not. If we don't post again, goodbye and thanks for all the help!!! |
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March 31, 2010 | 3:56 AM |
alyssa
(Team Member)
done we are done with the Research project so no more talking to you and thanks for all the help? it was cool to see the plants change. i still love the profile pic. :) :-) :] |
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March 31, 2010 | 3:49 AM |
amber
(Team Member)
farewell:) well this is probably my last posts. Mr Willlis says to tell u it is because since our olants have made seeds and are dieing we dont have to talk to you anymore. so bye(: |
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March 31, 2010 | 3:48 AM |
kaleb
(Team Member)
our experiment is over the plants are in their dying stage..so sad...good memories |
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March 25, 2010 | 12:49 AM |
Ms. Lindsey Tuominen
(Scientist/Mentor)
Thanks for the clarifications, Team Volleyball! Schneidsz, in the parental generation which traits went together for each parent? In other words, how do you know which plants are "mixed" and which are not? Are you planning to grow up the seeds at all, or is your experiment coming to an end? If you're planning to grow up the seeds, you might want to think about what you expect to see as they grow. Would it be similar or different from what you saw in your old plants? If you're finishing up, now is the time to start thinking about your prediction. Was it correct (in part or the whole thing)? What evidence do you have to support this? And finally, how does that help answer your research question? |
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March 24, 2010 | 3:24 AM |
Daniel
(Team Member)
F2 Generation The F2 generation came from two parents, each with pure opposite traits as the other. They were crossed, and then those offspring were crossed, leaving us with the seeds of the F2 generation. |
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March 24, 2010 | 3:21 AM |
Daniel
(Team Member)
Clarification No, we didn't take the time to pollinate them. Some may have been pollinated by the surrounding plants but not purposely. As of now we have several pods which appear to be seeded. As for the mixing of the phenotypes I meant that some of the plants in the pot would have a certain gene, and other plants would have a different gene. We didn't mean that one plant could have both hairy and non hairy leaves. |
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March 24, 2010 | 3:15 AM |
alyssa
(Team Member)
HIGH 4 they are all died all most some still have a couple of flowers some seed on it LOW 2 they are all died lot of seeds are on the low no flowers |
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March 24, 2010 | 3:14 AM |
amber
(Team Member)
our plants have seed pods on them.they are dieing though:(we took a mixedup pant and crossed them. |
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March 24, 2010 | 3:11 AM |
kaleb
(Team Member)
where have you been Ms. Lindsey???? |
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March 18, 2010 | 10:21 PM |
Ms. Lindsey Tuominen
(Scientist/Mentor)
Hi again, sorry for missing you yesterday. Your experimental design looks really good. I now feel that I could replicate your experiment if I knew one more fact: where your F2 plants came from! I am still a little bit confused about what you mean by "blended phenotypes" in your research predictions. Does this mean that a single plant has both hairy and hairless leaves, for example, or that a hairless plant also has a purple stem? If it is the latter case that you mean, then it would help me to know which phenotypes "go together" and which would indicate "mixing". I also like your data table -- good detail. I like that you are tracking all traits over time, not just height. It looks like your plants are getting ready to go to seed, too. Did you pollinate them yourselves? If so, how did you decide which plants/flowers to pollinate? Have a good weekend! |
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March 18, 2010 | 2:42 AM |
alyssa
(Team Member)
3-18-10 nothing has changed lots of flowers about to die because the flowers fell of and there are seed coming up now |
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March 18, 2010 | 2:40 AM |
amber
(Team Member)
there seems to be no difference from yesterday. they didnt grow any. it looks like in the high container plant number 4 has more buds growing on it but that seems to be it. also the one with high fertilizer seem to have stronger stems then the one with lowfertilizer levels. one out of five plants that are growing in the high are strong stemmed and one is flimsy stemmed. one our high we have one strong stemmed and the rest are flimsy. |
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March 17, 2010 | 3:33 AM |
alyssa
(Team Member)
LOW 3 are growing 2 yellow 1 green 2 yellow 1 purple i see lots of hairs 7 to 10 flowers #1 28 cenemeters #2 18 cenemeters #3 20 cenemeters HIGH 5 are growing 3 are green 2 are yellow 2 are purple 3 yellow 10 to 15 flowers i dont see hairs #1 4 cenemeters #2 died :( #3 24 cenemeters #4 27 cenemeters #5 25 cenemeters #6 24 cenemeters |
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March 17, 2010 | 3:14 AM |
kaleb
(Team Member)
no clue |
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March 12, 2010 | 10:08 PM |
Ms. Lindsey Tuominen
(Scientist/Mentor)
Team Volleyball, thanks for clarifying your experimental design, filling out all the Research Information, and letting me see your data so far. I just have one question this time, and that is about the connection between gene mixing and phenotypes. What phenotypes do you expect to see if the genes are "expressed in a discrete way" versus if they are expressed in a mixed way? Hope you have a good weekend! |
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March 11, 2010 | 2:01 AM |
Mr. Willis
(Teacher)
IV/DV, etc. Complete the IV/DV and add the information about the constants as discussed in class. Good idea to keep your data online. |
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March 11, 2010 | 1:34 AM |
Daniel
(Team Member)
Data Finally got up some of our data from the plants. It's in a word document in data table form, hopefully this is of some help to get an idea of what is occuring in our experiment |
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March 11, 2010 | 1:08 AM |
alyssa
(Team Member)
data 3-11-10 LOW 3 are growing 2 are yellow 1 is green 1 purple 2 green #1 is 12 cenemeters tall #2 is 5 cenemeters and #3 is 3 cenemeters i can see hairs on all of them HIGH 6 are growing 2 are yellow and 4 are green 3 are purple 3 are green #1 is 1 cenemeters #2 is .5 cenemeters #3 is 4 cenemeters #4 is 3 cenemeters # 5 is 4 cenemeters and #6 is 7 cenemeters i dont see hairs on any of them |
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March 11, 2010 | 1:05 AM |
amber
(Team Member)
hairs all of the three low plants we have growwing hhave hairs. none of the six high plants we have grown have hairs. |
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March 11, 2010 | 12:56 AM |
amber
(Team Member)
assome of our plants in the high and low get taller they are going froom purple to green. and some in the low are starting to get flower buds. so are some in the high. |
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March 10, 2010 | 11:26 PM |
Ms. Lindsey Tuominen
(Scientist/Mentor)
Hi again, team Volleyball! Thanks for clarifying your experimental design for me, that helps me understand better what it is you're doing. I like your updated photos -- looks like your plants are growing pretty well! Dancer, thanks also for posting some of your early data. Daniel, I would be glad to also see your data in more detail, so I look forward to seeing a file on this page soon. I'm still curious about what your research predictions were, though. Did you expect to see the patterns you are seeing in plant color, plant size, or any other observations you're taking, or is this a surprise to you? It's not important whether or not your prediction was correct, but knowing that will help you answer your research question at the end of your experiment. |
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March 9, 2010 | 3:16 AM |
alyssa
(Team Member)
in the high fertilizer there are 6 plants growing 5 of them are green and 2 of them are yellow they are about 3 to cenemeters 4 cenemeters tall in the low fertilizer they are 3 plants growing 2 of then are yellow a 1 is green they are about 3 cenemeters to 5 cenemeters |
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March 9, 2010 | 3:08 AM |
Daniel
(Team Member)
Data Yesterday we wrote down some more data tables containing the plant color, hair, stem color, and height of the plants. I will see if I can write it up on hear soon! |
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March 9, 2010 | 3:06 AM |
kaleb
(Team Member)
sorry for our confusion dancer is not smart enough to know what we are even testing....we are testing the difeerent fertilizer amouts sorry for the confustion |
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March 9, 2010 | 3:03 AM |
amber
(Team Member)
we are changing th =e nutrition we added extra fertilizerr to one. We messed up on the soil though. So we have= the right soil in the oops group. Our plants have grown much taller over nighr=t. Our tru leaves have gotten bigger. We are not growwing our plants under two different lighting levels, btw. Some of are olants are growing soo tall that their stems arent yet strong enough and the are leaning over or they are getting curved and growing back up. |
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March 9, 2010 | 3:01 AM |
kaleb
(Team Member)
i amglad to beworking with you the next 30 somthing ;days will be fun!!!!! |
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March 5, 2010 | 11:40 PM |
Mr. Willis
(Teacher)
Lighting levels Dancer - look again at your set up. You are NOT growing plants under two different levels of lighting. They are all side by side. You have stated what you are testing - levels of fertilizer. Perhaps this is what is causing the confusion. Be careful and definite about your tests and what you are observing. |
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March 4, 2010 | 10:23 PM |
Ms. Lindsey Tuominen
(Scientist/Mentor)
Hello again, Team Volleyball! Thanks for posting photos of your experiment. This gives me a better idea of what sort of system you are working with. Your research question is quite detailed! I am a little bit confused though, since in your research question you mention nutrition in the soil but Dancer says you are also growing the plants under different light levels? Have you given up on changing the nutrition in the soil, or are you changing both variables at once? If so, and if you see changes in the traits your are looking at, will you know which variable was responsible for the changes? Do you have any predictions for what (if anything) will happen to plant hairs, stem color, and true/yellow green depending on your environmental treatment? Can you tell if the genes themselves are changing? Can you have a case where the traits change but the genes do not? As you can see, scientists like to ask a ton of questions. I look forward to hearing more from you! |
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March 4, 2010 | 3:12 AM |
alyssa
(Team Member)
a weak later we have two plants one under low light and one under high the one under high light has 5 like 4 are green and one is yellow the plant under the low light their are 3 plant they are taller then the one in the high the ones in the low light one is green and two of them are yellow their are a couple of pichers of the plants |
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March 4, 2010 | 3:11 AM |
amber
(Team Member)
Update On Our Project!:) the plants are starting to get taller. today my group members took some pictures of our plant off of the webcam and they wil upload them. on the low three of are plants are really tall. there is one with a purple stem and deep green cotyledons. and the other two have a yellow green colored stem and yellowgreen colored cotyledons. On our high all of the plants we have growing have purple colored stems and dark green colored cotyledons. |
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March 4, 2010 | 2:58 AM |
alyssa
(Team Member)
hi we stated are project a weak ago the one than that went wroung is that we used the wroung soil but i think it is going to still work, and they are doing great their are like 3 to 4 plants coming up and they are like 1 cenemeters long |
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March 3, 2010 | 11:56 PM |
alyssa
(Team Member)
hi the plants a growing they are 1 cenemeters long and they are doing good |
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March 3, 2010 | 8:36 PM |
Ms. Lindsey Tuominen
(Scientist/Mentor)
Hello again! Hi Team 6, it's great to hear that your plants are up and doing well. However, I have no idea what your experiment is! When scientists go through their experiments, usually we have to write a proposal to get funding before we even start any work. In this process, they write up a research question, make some predictions about what they think will happen in their experiment, and write details about how they will carry out the experiment. We go through this process so that our peers can help us develop our ideas. Sometimes we don't word our questions in a way that can be easily answered by our methods, to give just one possible example. If you could post into the "Research Information" section some of the details about your experiment, I can help you with any possible difficulties much more easily. |
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March 3, 2010 | 4:09 AM |
Daniel
(Team Member)
Growing! Wow! I think that our plants are off to a good start, they are growing rather fast. About twice the height as monday! |
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March 3, 2010 | 4:08 AM |
kaleb
(Team Member)
our plants are doing good...they are finally starting to greow today is the 5th day into our experiment and our plants have grown to 1 and a half cenemeters to 4 cenemeters |
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March 3, 2010 | 4:06 AM |
Daniel
(Team Member)
Starting!!!! Last Friday we started our scientific journey. Already on Monday almost all the plants were growing and about a half centimeter tall. I can't wait to see the outcome of our experiment! |
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March 3, 2010 | 3:49 AM |
amber
(Team Member)
hey hey! im amber. Im happy to inform you that in both of our containers all of our plants are starting to grow. They range from between about .5 centimeters totwo centimeters. We will keep you informed on our project. :) |
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February 19, 2010 | 11:17 PM |
Ms. Lindsey Tuominen
(Scientist/Mentor)
Hello! I hope you are well, Team 6! I'm Lindsey, your scientist mentor for this project. I am working on my PhD at the University of Georgia, where my research is to learn how trees like aspen and cottonwood make chemicals to defend themselves against herbivores and stressful environments. In my free time, I like to read, draw, and hike in the woods. I look forward to hearing from you and learning about your project ideas. I am here to help wherever I can, so don't be afraid to ask questions! To get things started, I'd like to know what research questions about plants interest you. The hard part will be to find a question you can test in the time you have available for your experiment. That limitation is a tough one, but with a little creativity I think you'll be able to find a question that will fit. |
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February 19, 2010 | 8:03 AM |
Welcome to PlantingScience! Hello, I'm happy to introduce you to your scientist mentor for the genetics project. Please meet Lindsey Tuominen of The University of Georgia. Your mentor will help your team think through your team findings and class data. We all look forward to seeing what you discover about traits in the population of Brassica you study throughout their life cycle. Sharing ideas and observations is a huge part of science. We hope you enjoy this opportunity to talk online with your mentor during this extended inquiry. All best wishes on this scientific journey. Regards, The PlantingScience Team |
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