• Question: what is your favorite experiment

    Asked by Emma_D to Sarah, Sankar, Jo, Alan, Becky on 9 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by ruby tuesday, fire ball.
    • Photo: Jo Sadler

      Jo Sadler answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      One of my favourite experiments ever done is Mendel’s pea plant experiments to try and understand genetics. Through some fairly simple experiments using no fancy equipment – just a bit of gardening – he founded our modern understanding of genetics (what makes us us and how we inherit characteristics from our parents). That’s pretty neat..

      If you’re interested this video explains it well:

    • Photo: Alan McCue

      Alan McCue answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      I particularly like making homemade glowsticks at the moment (in a safe way of course :-)) as they are a very simple but interesting example of something called ‘chemiluminsence’ (i.e., they glow!). Its a great example because almost everyone has played with a glowstick at some point in there life!

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