What is Science?

For me, science is the study of life; the reason why the moon rotates the sun, why animals and people have instincts and how much is really inside one atom. Science is discovering, having to form a hypothesis and dig for the truth. It is a way of understanding the world we live in. Science is conducted by experiments, tests, making mistakes and then retrying over and over until it works. I have taken biology, chemistry, genetics and microbiology in high school and learned that experiments can be fun, a lot of work and just plain difficult sometimes. In genetics, my class had to bread and cross breed flies, we were split into groups and each group had their own type of fly, and the goal was to cross breed with other groups and see what dominant and recessive traits appeared in the offspring. However, with lots of teenagers and lots of socializing, the flies would often get loose and make their way to other groups and cross breeding was happening without our control. It got a little hectic and we had to start over from the beginning many times. I have had some fun science experiences as well, in microbiology my teacher had planned a "field trip" for us, little did we know that wasn't the case. As we were getting ready to leave the school we heard screams from people all across campus, they then proceeded to fall and spit up blood, it happened to about five students, all in order. It took us about ten seconds to figure out this was staged and that the collapsed people were drama students. We then had to 'get into gear" and wear goggles, gloves and white suits and work in groups to figure out what disease has spread across the campus, affected these "passed out" students and who started it. This project was our final exam and took about a week to compile the pieces. The mystery was a lot of fun, I had never had such a hands-on school project before. My teacher got in trouble for having such a dangerous project, and some parents complained, but it all worked out, and definitely was a memory from senior year I won't forget.