Tuesday, June 7, 2011

This week in science(no impact man)

no impact mans project was to make no impact on earth. he changed his whole life style by not eating out. he also cut off the light in his house. he cleaned his clothes at home. he stopped using his fridge and used these 2 pots with dirt in between each. he made worms eat his trash.he bought foods that were natural instead of processed.
he lowered his impact because he changed his lifestyle. he did things like not using light. he only used natural resources made by the earth. which doesnt affect the earth because he uses natural products instead of the things that can harm earth.
my reaction was this is weird because each just seemed impossible. most things he did were disgusting. the feeling i had was sad. i felt bad for his daughter she had to live through that and live with a crazy father. it was just bad sad and dirty. it was dirty it was funny.

Monday, June 6, 2011

DYO #2 Fruit fly population investigation

Question:The question was how would the gender of the fruitflies affect the number of fruitflies after 3 weeks.
Hypothesis:So my hypothesis was that if i put 2 female fruitflies and 1 male fruitfly together then i will get 322 fruitflies in 21 days because the female fruitflies lay 20 eggs a day times 2 because the amount of females so you add that up and get 322.
Backround Research:when i researched i found out that female fruitflies store sperm from males and lay 20 eggs a day.i learned it takes 1 day for an egg to hatch, 7 days to become a pupa, 6 days to become a larva and 2 days to mature into an adult and be able to lay eggs. we also learned some flies cant fly because of genetics.
Procedure: 1st step. I chose 1 male and 2 female fruitflies.
2nd step. we prepared a vile with a food source.
3rd step.we put them in the vile sideways so they wouldnt fall into their food.
4th step. then we go and look at our vile and 2 other groups.
5th step.then in three we check to see how many flies are in each vile we chose.

this picture shows the graph and my data for this dy i picked because it was the only picture i had. 
  Analysis: i looked at three vials that contained 1 male and 2 female fruit flies. each vial had different amount of fruit flies at the end of 3 weeks.vial 1 had 60 fruit flies. vile 2 had 105 fruit flies. vial 3 had 70 fruit flies.
if iput 1 male and 2 female fruit flies in avile with a food souce then in 21 days there will be 322 fruit flies. my data did not support my hypothesis because i messed up with my calculations but the average of the vials was 78.3. i did not calculate right because i didnt think of deaths and how eggs wouldnt hatch. i thought they would be born every day and thats how i got 322 but i was wrong.
Conclusion: the overall experiment was a complete fail thinking about my calculations there is no way to find out how it would happen with math there were to many unexpected deaths. i calculated 322 and only got 60 it was a fail my experiment didnt support the hypothesis. the best way to do this again is redo the experiment many time and average the deaths. the question i would like to go further with is how to find the best way to solve this problem.