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6th Year Biology students visit NUI, Maynooth

6th Year Leaving Certificate Biology Experiments, NUI, Maynooth. Photo: Ms. O'Sullivan
NEWS / 22 January 2014

On 14th January, the 6th Year Biology students visited NUI, Maynooth to undertake a number of Biology experiments. Jonathan Sweeney and Abi Grainger, two 6th Year Biology students, explain some of the work that the achieved while there.

On 14th January, the 6th Year Biology students visited NUI, Maynooth to undertake a number of Biology experiments. Jonathan Sweeney and Abi Grainger, two 6th Year Biology students, explain some of the work that the achieved while there. (Click on blog title to see more photos.)

"It was hands-on, interactive. You were doing the experiments, for example the isolation of DNA and the rate of photosynthesis. We did 8 experiments in total."
Jonathan Sweeney

"An interesting experiment to watch was the photosynthesis one because you could see the bubbles which means that they're creating oxygen."
Abi Grainger

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