20 Time - Tips for Car Owners

Tips for Car Owners

We decided to devote our research in the past few weeks into creating tips for car owners. Car owners may not always be smart or know what they’re doing, but the tips that we found can be very useful to them.

Petrol is something that is very important to a gasoline-powered car; it’s what makes it work! Of course, people would love to save money on this. There is a label on your fuel tank that says either regular, plus, or premium. This can mean one of two things; it is required or it is recommended. In order to know which one it means, you can ask your car dealer and they can tell you. By knowing if it’s required or recommended, you can change fuel type. For example, if it says it “recommends” plus, then you can most likely put regular gas and the car will run just as well.

You will be saving yourself a few cents per gallon, and over time, that will equate to a large amount of saving. We will do more research in the upcoming weeks and find more useful tips that can save money or can help your car.

Hunger Games Final Analysis

1. In this lab we did a simulation of natural selection.

2. The phenotype that was the best at catching food were the knucklers.

3. The population evolved because some genotypes were not able to collect food as well as others. As a result, there were less of those after time and more of the ones that were surviving and reproducing more. There was a significant lowering in the population of species with the “A” allele, because it was not as well suited to collecting food as the “a” allele.

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   The random parts of this lab was the dispersion of food because it was scattered unevenly and caused somewhat of an unfair feeding ground. This affected the population because the amount of offspring may have changed due to the random scattering of food.

5. If the food was larger it would be easier to pick up by the Stumpy’s. This can be related to nature because in nature, size of plants and their fruit or food may change as well. If this was to happen, there will for sure be changes in population.

6. If there was not incomplete dominance, then knucklers wouldn’t exist. Knucklers happen to the best most effective way of obtaining food, so there would be a sequence of evolutions that would result in knucklers existing.

7. Natural selection and evolution go hand in hand. This is because evolution wouldn’t occur if natural selection didn’t pick the best traits. Over time, the phenotype of species affected by natural selection would appear and evolution would be visible.

8. Knucklers mated with pinchers to increase the amount of offspring that were created. This affects the allele frequency of the population because the “a” was seen more often while the “A” was seen less often. This is related to what happens in nature because in nature the trait that is more effective will have more mates. This happens because of sexual selection.

9. In evolution, the ability to survive better than others in an environment evolves. If a green colored butterfly is more susceptible to being caught and eaten because it is easier to see, then the butterflies that are brown will live because they are harder to spot and therefore harder to catch and eat. Natural selection affects the phenotype and genotype. For phenotype, the above example with colors can explain why phenotype changes. With genotype, there can be a resistance a certain species develops to protect itself against a certain disease or bacteria.

10. If natural selection adapts species to their environment, then why aren’t more predators gaining traits that would help them sight prey better?

Gasoline Progress

Gasoline Progress

So far in 20 Time, we have researched some articles on different types of gasoline, such as regular, plus, and premium. The main difference between each of these gases is price, at least in the mind of a robust businessman or woman while filling up their Mercedes. In the mind of a person that is trying to make sure that their cars receive the proper gasoline it is a much different story.

The contemporary average price of premium gasoline per gallon in 2015 was 2.8 dollars, costing a 20 gallon refill to be around 56 dollars. We researched the actual differences between different gas types, and encountered an interesting fact. The difference between regular and premium is not only price but its ability to resist knocking, or high frequency oscillations in a cylinder that makes a sharp metallic noise.

We will continue to do more research and end up with a reason as to why you should put a certain type of gasoline in a car, backed up with a few reliable articles.

Bird Beak Lab Conclusion

Bird Beak Lab Conclusion

The feeding rounds of part two yielded much less offspring but most still survived. The spoon didn’t have enough time to collect five pieces of food so it died out, but the tweezer, binder clip, and scissor were able to collect at least five in ten seconds and survive. There were 13 total chicks in the first wave but in the second, with the modification, there was only seven.

My hypothesis was not supported because the spoon had the least chicks in the first part which doesn’t agree with my hypothesis about the spoon being the most potent beak. The second part disagreed with my hypothesis as well because the spoon did not survive.  

If this situation was to continue for a few more decades I can see a decrease in all species except the tweezers because the tweezers were by far the most effective beak for food. The spoon will be wiped out because it cannot pick up enough food in time to survive each wave.

CER

In this lab we asked the question: “If natural selection occurs in a population, how do changes in selective pressures affect the evolution of that species.” We found that the tweezers were the best beak because it was able to collect the most amount of food and create the most amount of offspring. This data does not support our claim because we thought the spoon was going to be the most effective way of collecting food and producing offspring.

PE

Our data contradicts our expected results because instead of the spoon being the best way of collecting food the tweezers were. There could have been errors because we might have not evenly distributed the food around the table. Another problem may be distance away from the food. Some beaks may have had a lesser distance to cover to collect the food, costing precious time. A way we could have gotten past these faults is by taking more time in distributing the food and also being more careful in being the same distance from the feeding grounds.

PA

This lab was done to demonstrate how a certain trait that improves survivability increases in popularity in a population but a weaker trait that isn’t as potent will show up less often. From this lab I learned more about natural selection and how it is able to select the best traits in a population. Based on my experience in this lab, I can understand why certain birds have certain beaks in a specific area, but in another area with different types of food, there are also different types of beaks.

New Addition to 20 time project

My classmate, Eveliina Niva, has joined my 20 time research project. From now on, our 20 time posts will be on this blog and will include both of us. Welcome Eveliina to my blog!