• Question: what is your favourite experiment to do

    Asked by anon-255763 on 24 Jun 2020. This question was also asked by anon-257324.
    • Photo: Beth Clark

      Beth Clark answered on 24 Jun 2020:

      Hi Peter, that’s a difficult question! I’ve always enjoyed learning more about anatomy. At school we did a heart dissection as a class and I found that really interesting, to learn about all the different structures and how it worked. My favourite thing in the laboratory now though is ageing fish using their ear bones, called otoliths. In a similar way to how trees have rings in their trunk which tell you how old they are, fish otoliths have rings too. The fish I look at have daily rings, but some are yearly. I find removing and looking at the otoliths really relaxing.
      What kind of experiments have you done, and what were your favourites?

    • Photo: Jessica Gomez-Banderas

      Jessica Gomez-Banderas answered on 24 Jun 2020:

      My favourite experiments are the ones that involve colour! Especially if there are some cool colour changes 🙂

    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 24 Jun 2020:

      Hi Peter! I have a thing about investigating things on the electronic microscope (SEM), I love the fact that we can see such minute details and understand structures so much better than the naked eye. In terms of experiments I always love things that can be done at home using everyday things – have you tried the chocolate experiment in the microwave to measure the speed of light?

    • Photo: Rachel Meacock

      Rachel Meacock answered on 2 Jul 2020:

      I loved morphology and during my degree we had to do a lot of dissections! I studied marine biology so fish dissection was pretty in depth, which was great fun! Fairly easy to do and very interesting, if smelly!

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