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Let's Do This!: General Biology 2: Performance Task 1

This document provides instructions for two biology experiments: 1) Observing the life cycle of fruit flies by collecting wild fruit flies, culturing them, and recording the emergence of larvae, pupae, and adult flies over time. Students are asked to draw the life cycle. 2) Examining the reproductive parts of a gumamela flower by dissecting it and labeling the sepals, petals, stamens, anthers, filaments, carpels, stigma, style, and ovary. Students are asked to draw and label the flower.

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Let's Do This!: General Biology 2: Performance Task 1

This document provides instructions for two biology experiments: 1) Observing the life cycle of fruit flies by collecting wild fruit flies, culturing them, and recording the emergence of larvae, pupae, and adult flies over time. Students are asked to draw the life cycle. 2) Examining the reproductive parts of a gumamela flower by dissecting it and labeling the sepals, petals, stamens, anthers, filaments, carpels, stigma, style, and ovary. Students are asked to draw and label the flower.

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General Biology 2: Performance Task 1 

 
Name: ______________________________________ Date: ___________ 
 
Let’s do this! (Performance Task 1) 
 
Performance Task 1.1: Drosophila Life Cycle Experiment 
 
Materials 
• Wide-mouthed glass bottles  
• Potatoes or sweet potatoes or bananas  
• Paper  
• Rubber bands  
• Shallow basin  
 
Procedure  
I. Collecting wild fruit flies  
A. Prepare a clean glass bottle with a wide mouth (i.e. Gatorade).  
B. Place banana peels inside the bottle.  
C. Leave the bottle open and set aside for a day in a cool, dry place.  
D.  When  there  are  enough  flies,  cover  the  bottle  with  a piece of paper secured by a 
rubber band.  
 
II. Culturing fruit flies  
A.  Boil  sweet  potatoes  or  potatoes.  Remove  the  skin,  and  mash.  (Alternatively, 
bananas  may  be  used,  but  do  not  boil  them.)  This  will  serve  as  the  medium/  food 
for the fruit flies.  
B.  Add  a  small  amount  of  the food medium into a bottle. (The bottle should only be 
approximately  1/10  full.)  Use  the  same  type  of  bottle  as  that  used  to  catch  fruit 
flies  so  that  the  mouth  openings  will be the same. Be sure to flatten the medium at 
the  bottom  of  the  bottle  so  that  the  medium  will  not  fall  off  if  the  bottle  is  placed 
upside down.  
C.  Transfer  the  fruit  flies  from  the  catch  bottle  to  the  culture  bottle.  Do  this  by 
placing  the  culture  bottle  on  top  of  the  catch  bottle  with  their  mouths  touching 
each  other.  Remove  the  paper  cover  of  the  catch  bottle and let the flies move to the 
medium  bottle.  When  there  are  at  least  10  flies  in  the  culture  bottle,  immediately 
cover the bottle with paper secured with rubber bands.  
D. Store the culture bottles in a cool, dry place. Place the bottles on a shallow basin 
with water to prevent ants from going into the medium.  
 
III. Observing the life cycle of the fruit flies  
A.  Take  note  of  the  date  when  the  flies  were  cultured.  This  is  indicative  of  the 
approximate time the eggs will be laid.  
B.  Record  the  date  when  the  larvae  first  emerged.  These  will  appear  as  small 
maggots  crawling  on  the  medium  or  at  the  inner  side  of  the  bottle.  Draw  or  take 
pictures of the larvae.  
C.  Record  the  date  when  the  pupae  first  emerged.  These  will  appear  as  small 
cocoons sticking at the inner side of the bottle. Draw or take pictures of the pupae.  
D.  Record  the  date  when  the  adult  flies  first  emerged.  Draw  or  take pictures of the 
adult flies.  
E.  Draw  the  life  cycle  of  the  fruit  fly.  Include  the  approximate  number  of  days  it 
takes for each stage to emerge based on observations. 
 

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General Biology 2: Performance Task 1 

Note: Turn the illustration of the life cycle of the fruit flies in the Google Classroom. 
Performance Task 1.2: Exercise on Plant Reproduction 
 
Materials  
1. Gumamela flower  
2. Scalpel blade or sharp pencil  
3. Optional: other available flowers  
 
Procedure  
1. Obtain a flower of gumamela (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis).  
2.  Locate  the  outermost  floral  whorl.  You  can  find  it  at  the  base  of  the  flower  and 
resembles a green crown. These are the sepals, collectively called the calyx. Inner to 
the  sepals  but  extending  beyond  them  are the prominent petals, collectively known 
as the corolla.  
3.  At  the  center  of  the  flower  is  a  prominent  tube.  This  is called the staminal tube. 
Surrounding  the  tube  are  minute  stalks  with  yellow  bulbous  tips.  These  are  the 
stamens.  The  bulbous  tips are the anthers containing the microsporangia while the 
stalks are the filaments.  
4.  At  the  very  tip  of  the  staminal  tube  are five bulbous structures, each borne on a 
stalk  that  fuses  with  the  other  stalks  as  they  go  down  the  staminal  tube.  The 
structures at the tips are the stigmas of the carpels while the stalks are the style.  
5.  Remove  the  petals  carefully  so  as  not  to  damage  the  base.  Using a scalpel blade 
or  the  sharp  end  of  a  pencil,  make  an  incision  from  the  tip  of  the  staminal  tube 
down  to  the  base.  Carefully  open  the  staminal  tube  to  reveal  the  rest  of  the  fused 
styles. Follow the styles until they terminate at the base. This base is the ovary.  
6.  Draw  the  flower  and  label  the  following  parts:  petals,  sepals,  stamens,  anther, 
filament, carpels, stigma, style, and ovary. 
 
Note: Submit the drawing through Google Classroom. 

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