Teamwork: Working alongside Dr. Moore, undergraduate students, and graduate students and attending weekly meetings has given us an opportunity to collaborate as a team, delegate tasks, and bounce ideas off of one another (a crucial aspect when working within the scientific community). 

Critical Thinking: This project has given us the opportunity to utilize our critical thinking skills in order to hone in on the scientific method and experimental design, while also readjusting methods carried out in past versions of similar experiments. 

Professionalism : Working under a professor as a colleague rather than as a student has allowed us to develop professional communication skills, while also attending meetings to work on specific projects as a group as one would do in a workplace. We have developed skills in collaboration, while also getting the oppprtunity to work alongside others in a respectful professional manner. 

• Rapid cycling Brassica rapa, better known as Wisconsin Fast Plants, a part of the Brassicaceae family serve as ideal model organisms due to their completion of a life cycle in just 35 to 45 days.

•  Wisconsin Fast Plants can be purchased in several varieties that select for specific traits such as purple pigmentation of the stem, hairiness, dwarf, petite, tall, polycot, as well as variety packs.

• To investigate the relationship between genetics and evolution by testing whether specific environmental stimuli affect the presence of selected traits in

following generations of Wisconsin fast plants.

• To create an experimental design to be carried out and replicated within the BIO 204 course

• A strong G effect, and moderate E effect was observed when evaluating hairiness as well as purpleness.

• Control and Selected fast plants exhibited the same G effect when evaluating cotyledons and a minimal E effect

• Different combinations of stressors, and seed stocks are currently being

tested in BIO 204!