What Was Your First Invention ?

Question: What Was Your First Invention ?

Asked by kuran13 to Louise, Michaela, Sian, Steve, Yvette on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: About. This question was also asked by vampiregal.
- Yvette Wilson answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  my first invention was describing where aardvarks feed in African savanna and what effects their feeding might have on the vegetation. Not really an invention, but it builds on our knowledge on how savannas function:-)
- Michaela Livingstone answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  My first invention was Gordon, the freezer snowman. He lived in our -80 degrees Centigrade freezer for a good couple of years, until someone knocked him over.
  
  But seriously, I don’t really invent anything – I do experiments that mostly use fairly well developed techniques, so bit boring I guess!
- Louise Johnson answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  I’ve never invented a machine or anything, but if discoveries count, my first discovery was how often wild yeast have sex. We scraped the yeast cells off the trees and looked at their genes. Sex makes organisms swap their genes around, so we could look at how the genes were shared between the yeasts and make an estimate of how often it happened.
  
  We worked out that wild yeasts have sex once in every hundred generations. So now you know.
- Sian Harding answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  A machine to track the beating of single heart muscle cells
- Steven Kiddle answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  A computer program called TCAP, it does clever stuff with data about genes

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