Friday, April 29, 2011

post 8; this week in science ( fruit flies part 1)

this week in science i came to school only 2/3 days and so yesterday my class mates and i were trying to figure out if how many flies was in a small container flying around and that kind of tricky because if you look at it it would look like a million fruit flies flying around so instead we deiced to try to figure it out in a way that we wouldn't eve have to look at the flies.

so we learned that if we put 3 flies to start with in there if there all adults the females lay 2O eggs a day and it only takes 1 day to lay a egg 7 days in the larva processes 6 days in the pupa and then 2 days to become adults and then they lay 2O eggs a day so in 16 days there should be 323 flies in 16 days in the small container then the process starts again.

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