Going to Los Medanos Elementary was an extremely fulfilling experience. While I was there with my other group members, something that really appealed to my eyes was the amount of color in our 'venue'. There were posters for each group and so many kids with their parents came in afterward and so began the adventure. To get ready for this presentation my group and I did plenty of work. I mean between having to figure out what we were doing wrong and staring over so many times, you would have thought that we would have given up. However, we did not and we have it our all. Our project was 'Elephant Toothpaste' and the kids truly loved it. Some more than others!
      My group members were also so committed. We really had a great time together. Between all the laughing and cheering, it did not at all feel like we were doing work. We made the best of this experience and had fun with the kids. It was also hilarious because we had Leslie and Alondra in our corner majority of the time cheering  and screaming for us! Every single member in my group, including myself, had a task to complete and completed it fabulously. We went above and beyond to make this as great as possible for the kids.
      The kids and their families truly enjoyed our presentation. Something that I really appreciated on the parents' end was their involvement  in our presentation. For example, when we forgot to put in soap in one of our last presentation, there was a mother there with her daughter and she questioned our process by reminding us to add the soap. The parents were very committed to their child's gain from our presentation and were very much present and alert. The kids on the other hand I could tell were overjoyed about everything that we did. They adored the color and absolutely lived for the moment when the reaction erupted. From the way their eyes lit up and the way that they covered their mouths in awe, I knew that they appreciated our presentation.
      If I could do this whole thing over again I would. I can't put into words how much fun this was. I mentioned already that I love working with children, so when I'm around them my only mission is to make them smile, to make them laugh. These kids truly made me feel like a super duper mega star. Their faces in awe made my evening that night. It was also very satisfying when parents complimented us and also thanked us for giving their child a great time. It was a truly rewarding experience. When conducting our presentation, my group and I found that when we put baking soda first and vinegar last instead of the other way around, our eruption was more pleasing to the crowd.

SHOUTOUT TO MY AP BIOLOGY SQUAD:
(from the left) America, Richa, Aleeyah, Owen (myself), Shyreen and Andrea.

1. ALSO SPECIAL THANKS TO Leslie and Alondra for making us super famous!

Hweezy Reasoning

What this data is telling me is that there are 1000 individuals in this given population. At the begging of the problem I am told that .731 is the value of q2, which are the homozygous recessive individuals. After that, I solve for q, then p, and then p2; which tells me the value of homozygous dominant inviduals
(.0225).  Once I have the p,q, q2, and p2 values, finding the 2pq value is simple. What I have to do is multiple p times q and then multiply that product by 2. When I do this. I get that the value of 2pq (heterozygous individuals) is .255. However these values are frequencies, so you take each one, multiply it by 1000 and that tells me the number of individuals for each of the groups above. Therefore, there are
255 heterogeneous individuals,
731 homogeneous recessive
individuals and about 23 [when rounded] homogeneous dominant 
individuals.

Hardy-Weinberg Blog

Step 1: Identify your given values.

·  Population: 1000

·  q2: .731

Step 2: Take the square root of q2 in order to solve for q.

·  √q2 = q

·  √.731 = .85

Step 3: Since the Hardy-Weinberg rule says that the sum of p and q is 1, then to find the value of p,
subtract q from 1. After that, you
square the p value to find the p2 value.

·  1-q=p

·  1-.85=.15

·  p2=.0225

Step 4: Once you have the p,q, q2, and p2 values, finding the 2pq value 
is simple. What you have to do is multiple p times q and them multiply that product by 2.

(p x q)(2) = 2pq
(.15 x .85)(2) = .255

Step 5: To find the number of  individuals in the population, you multiply each  of the values which stand for an individual (p2, q2, 2pq) bythe total number of individuals in the population.

(.255)(1000) = 255 heterogeneous individuals

(.731)(1000) = 731 homogeneous recessive individuals

(.0225)(1000) = about 23 [when rounded] homogeneous dominant individuals.

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California Black Worm Lab

The purpose of this lab was to identify the substance (water, depressant, or stimulant) that was added to each of the separate containers of California Black Worms by observing the heart beat of a worm from each container.

To determine which of the different solutions (A,B,C) was which I applied my new knowledge from statistics. With the data we collected in class on Friday, I created three different
stemplots for substance A, B and C.

When I did that, I found that A had the highest values for number in the tens (eg. 11, 12 ...). This led me to conclude that Substance A was the depressant since the heart beat counts were so low.

When I created the stemplots for substances B and C, I found that they both had the highest values for numbers in the twenties (eg. 21, 22 ...). From here I concluded that substance C was the stimulant because it had more values in the 30s than substance be did. I also based my conclusion on my observations during the lab. When I was counting the heart beats of the worms in substance C I can remember that before I was able to get the worms out they were all almost fighting each other and all  intertwined into a ball.

Therefore, this means that substance B is the water, because during the lab I also observed that these worms seemed to just swim calmly.

APEEZY 3 Favorite Ecoloy Selfies at UCLA

A Flower, #33

 Finding flowers is easy, but I

wanted to capture something that is different. I had a really great time finding this flower and taking a picture next to it because I did it on the UCLA campus. It was so beautiful and therefore, I wanted to capture a flower that would also reflect the campus' many fascinating  sites. 

A Non-flying Insect, #3

This photo was also taken on the splendid UCLA campus, and might I add that looking for ants was not as easy as I thought it would be. However, I had a great time looking for ants because I was all over the place, I was very determined. Eventually, I found this swarm of ants and I was very hasteful to get my picture taken because they were moving quickly.

This picture was also taken on the
UCLA campus, and I had a good
time finding this item because
it was not easy. I thought to myself
 how I would do this until I found a
whole section of grass by the UCLA
Library filled with snails. That
 happened because all the lawns
had just been watered. The snails
that I have pictures of are the only
ones I could access because I didn't
want to risk crushing several snail
in the attempt of taking a selfie. This
was also fun because the snails were
so slow, and that made it easy to take
the (part) population photo above.

A Population, #7