"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 1/17/2016 4:24 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> But... Did you ever do the science experiment with the lima bean? I
>> had to do it a couple of times in school. Take lima bean seed (granted,
>> one intended for planting), put between wet paper towels, observe daily
>> and see how long it takes for a sprout to occur. It is several days out.
>
> I did a variation of that. My dad took some bean seeds to work with him
> and exposed them to varying levels of radiation. I grew them to see which
> would survive, which would be mutated and to see just how much exposure to
> radiation would cause either mutation or non-viable seeds. It was fun.

We did stuff like that in higher grades.