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  Syracuse University

  
  
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  Scientist Mentor: I will mentor teams of students online

  
  
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  Plant biotechnology, cell wall formation, biofuels, tree biology

  
  
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Recent Posts

Absolute Zero Heather Coleman Apr 10, 2018

Congratulations on completing your project! I hope that your presentation goes well and I wish you the best of luck with future experiments. It was a pleasure working with you.

Heather

Absolute Zero Heather Coleman Mar 28, 2018

I'm just looking at your data now - I like the bar graphs - did you consider putting a cumulative version of the 'seeds germinated' for each day (i.e. so that if you have 2 seeds germinated on day 1, and then 3 more on day 2, the number…

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I'm just looking at your data now - I like the bar graphs - did you consider putting a cumulative version of the 'seeds germinated' for each day (i.e. so that if you have 2 seeds germinated on day 1, and then 3 more on day 2, the number of seeds germinated on day 2 would be 5?). It might be easier to see the results of the project that way. Also curious about the radicle growth - is this cumulative and for all seeds that have radicles on a certain day? If so, why do you think that the numbers on the last day are slightly lower than the numbers for the second last day? I think it is interesting that you found that the cold and freezing water were best - I would not have expected that! Oh, the other information that would be interesting is something you mention in your comments below - how many seeds did you plant and how many germinated? You could record it as a ratio (or percentage). It sounds like for the hotter water trials some of the seeds didn't end up germinating at all.

Absolute Zero Heather Coleman Mar 20, 2018

Great work updating your project info! Do you have any ideas as to why the seeds watered with ice cold water might have germinated first? Do you think you will see the same results in this next trial?