Flies! Flies! Flies and How Do They Reproduce and Look!
My students need to engage in hands activity raising of drosophila using the 1-Chromatography of Drosophila Eye Pigments Kit and 1 media, 1 vials and culture kit.
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My school is a public school with in a very large school district in which resources are very limited. My school is in a low income area of a very large city. I must purchase most of my supplies at the dollar store in order to complete labs at a high school level. I also have very out going students which deserve a chance just like the magnet schools in our district.
My students deserve to do labs just like other high school students in our district do. My supplies are very, very limited along with a lack of real lab class. I make do with what I have but would appreciate help in any form. My students can not believe how I recycle, reuse the littlest items in which some teachers throw out.
This lab would give the students hands on experience along with a better understanding of how genetics and reproduction work. This is a major concept in Biology as well as AP Biology and this would be an exceptional addition to my classroom as well as the program these students are currently in.
I am asking for the 1-Chromatography of Drosophila Eye Pigments Kit and 1 media, 1 vials and culture kit. This hands-on kit will help my students to understand the properties of biochemical pathways, enzymes, and the relationship between genotype and phenotype. My students will gain experience working with one of the most prevalent model organisms, Drosophila melanogaster, while performing paper chromatography on the eye pigments of 5 different mutant strains. Some of the mutant eyes look very similar, but produce vastly different chromatograms, and some of them look very different, but produce very similar chromatograms. This makes it clear to students which eye pigments are missing, or are in excess, in each mutant strain. Enough for two classes to use and parts we can reuse. Along with the chromatography they will include the genetics and reproduction as part of this lab.
Please make this reality come true for my students, whom would love to investigate and solve the mysteries of genetics. They will also be able to use the Chi-Square analysis for this lab which is very important to analyze data. There are no replacement for hands on activity in a science class.
This covers 2 AP labs. I also ordered one whole mount so the student can actually see the chromosomes of the fruit fly.
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