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Biology, 12/19, Period 2

There are platters of Christmas cookies and a pitcher of punch on a table in the front of the room, and Elliot is wearing a green elf cap and earrings shaped like Christmas tree balls. "Hey, happy final day, happy four-days-until-your-break day. Have some cookies."

"There is a test at each of your seats; you have 30 minutes to complete it. After that, please turn to the pamphlet and pick a lab you would like to do. You don't need to complete it -- the time's really tight -- but I do expect you to show off proper lab technique as you choose and set up the experiment."

"Next semester I'm teaching an anatomy class, in case any of you want to keep going with me. If you don't, think of me next time you carve up a defenseless animal. Either way, I'll try to post your grades by Saturday."

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Aeryn Sun

Teddy Altman

Willow Rosenberg

Isabel Evans

M. Parker

Jamie Madrox

Peter Parker

Briar Moss

Five questions:

1. Explain one important difference between frog and pig circulatory systems, as shown by the dissections last week.

2. Draw a food chain or food web for a marine environment including sharks.

3. What is pollen's role in plant reproduction? Where can it be found?

4. If one parent has type AB blood and the other has type B, what blood types can their children have? Ignore Rh factor.

5. What was the coolest thing you learned in class this term and why?

[OOC: Take it or handwave and tell me what grade you got.]

1. One is a frog circulatory system and one is a pig's.

2. *insert crude drawing of a shark that looks more like a stick person eating smaller stick people*

3. The pollen is the sort of genetic material that leaves one plant for another in order to pollinate it and create other plants. I could explain it slightly more technically but you'll turn red.

4. B

5. I learned about cell reproduction without having to hear about procreation.

1. One is an amphibian and the other is a mammal?

2. Shark-->Seal-->Fish-->Seaweed

3. It's in the stamen and it's the guy part of the reproduction.

4. B

5. That my cells look really weird.

Willow turned in five blue books' worth of material - one for each question.

Question 4 was her favorite, as shown by the many Punnett squares she made to not only answer that question, but variations on it by changing up the blood types and even including Rh factor.

At the end of question 5 she wished Elliot a Happy Holidays and drew a happy face to go with it.

[ooc: appropriate grade for nerdy girl]

Isabel had reasonable answers for all the questions. Although she might have been heard humming a certain song from a bad sequel when she answered question 3. Where does that pollen go?.

Parker ~~would be doing all of this for real if the plug-ins were installed~~ answered 1. correctly, drew a slightly over-enthusiastic food web with a shark in it (eating everything), answered 3. with Everywhere but also included details on how it fertilized plants, got in-depth on blood types to a frightening degree (AB, B, and possibly A, if the B has a recessive O connected to it), then said that the coolest thing she learned in the class was: That life can be found anywhere, adapting to survive, no matter what the conditions. For every potential prey, there's a predator. For every symbiote, there's a host. You just have to wait long enough. Plus, orchids are freaks for Bach. (She did well enough to get an A on the test.)

~~Handwaves. Jamie gets a C~~

Peter did very well, except he got smart-assy on Question 5 and answered "Ice."

Below that, he wrote, "Just kidding," and gave a more serious answer.

Briar studied. Doesn't mean he got anything over a B though.

Last time, dudes.

Aeryn looks through the pamphlet, looks really alarmed at the egg dissection, and pulls Egg a little closer in his bowl. And then she sticks to the diffusion one.

Dissections weren't going to be on Teddy's agenda for a very long time, so he went for the Adaptation of the Human Hand lab.

It was fun, he didn't even need to tie his hand up, just changed it into a monkey hand. "Hee, monkey hand."

Willow worked on the muscle lab (http://www.troy.k12.ny.us/thsbiology/labs_online/home_labs/muscle_lab_home.html). The pamphlet kept flying up and smacking her elbow when she went to test the muscles of her check, thus making her slap herself.

She finally pinned the pamphlet down under a bunsen burner and kept going.

Feeling vaguely guilty, Isabel did the egg dissection.

Parker did the adaptation lab. Because she's all about that. And it's her thing.

Jamie multiplies and does all the labs. He's nutty that way.

Peter did the "protien" lab, but was surprised to discover that it actually involved protein.

Talk (quietly) or ask Elliot questions.

"Dr. Reed?" Parker carried a small, purple-violet (http://www.firstrays.com/Pictures_orchids/Zygopetalum%20Blue%20Eyes%20600%20x%20400.jpg) orchid up to Elliot's desk. "Happy end of semester. Thanks for teaching this course, I learned a lot."

Elliot fingered the petals on the flower. "It's beautiful," she told Parker "Thank you for thinking of me."

"You're welcome." Parker smiled. "And this one doesn't sing."

"I was impressed Willow got that to work," Elliot admitted. "But given that the books in my office spent the morning attacking me? The non-singing plant is a nice change."

You guys have been an awesome class. Gold stars to Willow for TA'ing.

*snuggles*

*leaves treats for the rats*

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