Cool Science
Fruit Flies
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| This picture is from my genetics lab. Basically we analyzed the different pigments
in mutant flies that have different eye colors. To accomplish this, we smashed fly
heads onto chromatography paper. Then we set the bottom edge of the paper in chromatography
solution. As the solvent soaked up through the paper, it separated the different
pigments on the paper. The six streaks correspond to the six kinds of flies we
analyzed. The streak that doesn't show any color is from the white-eyed flies.
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| Here is a female white-eyed mutant fly.
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| What do you call a fly with no wings? A walk. This is one of the other mutations we
experimented with in our lab.
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Sea Urchin Development
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| Fertilization | After 20 minutes | 45 minutes | 1.5 hours |
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| 4.5 hours | 1 day | 6 days |
| In my Developmental Biology class we fertilized sea urchin eggs and watched them develop.
In the first picture the black dots on the clear membrane are sperm.
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Chemistry
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| This is a chemical called luminol that I made in Organic Chemistry Lab. Neat, huh?
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