Blog 16 Time Love Memory Write about your lit circle in a separate entry. What has surprise you the most so far?

     "Time, Love, Memory" by Jonathan Weiner is about Seymour Benzer, a professor at the Cal Tech, and a major contributor to the growing feild of genetics and molecular biology. I was really suprised and pleased that he was so close to where we live because I haven't heard of many influential people around Alhambra. The book deals with time, love, and memory of their experiment on fruit flies to see how genes affect behavior. Time is evolution, love is mating, and memory is genetics.
     The book goes through how Benzer got interested in fruit flies. He got the fruit flies from another professor at Cal Tech when he was walking the halls. He put one fruit fly in two connecting tubes and shined a light at one end of the tube. I thought that Benzer was really innovative to think of this experiment, he could have used another kind of animal but the fruit fly was really the best choice because they reproduce so quickly.
     One part of the book that was stuck with me was the part about the eyes of a frog. The experiment was to cut open the head and reattach the optical nerve to the other so the left was on the right and vise versa. It was fascinating to read that there was practically no change at all except that the frog didn't recognize a fly and didn't attempt to eat it at all. I was disgusted yet intrigued about the experiments on the animals brains.
In the second half of the book Benzer loses interest in studying the genetic origin of behavior which makes sense becuase if someone spends to much time doing one thing all their life, they would eventually drift away.     
     Overall, Jonathan Weiner wrote an excellent book that kept my attention on the field of genetics with its unexpected descrpition of experiments on disecting animals and reattaching parts together. I'm really glad that I got to read this book.