About The Author:
Christina Manelli
I am currently a freshman at
the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, but Maple Grove, MN is
still the place I call home. I come from a fairly large family
as I am one of four children, three of them being boys, making me
the only girl. I am very active and I love to play just about
any sport. I have competed with danced and figure skating and
played softball but my main sport is gymnastics. I have been
competing with gymnastics since the age of 11.
I made this webpage as a
requirement for my organismal biology (BIO 203) course. The
reason why I picked this organism is because I love raspberries.
At my house in Minnesota, my mom has a raspberry patch in out
backyard and it was always the ritual to have to go out into the
garden and pick the raspberries. This was an almost daily chore
at my house when I was a child. When m
y mom found out that I
would pick the raspberries by eating four or five of them and
then placing one or two of them in the bowl, she was a little
upset. She had always wondered why my bowl was always so empty,
but that day she knew the real answer. From that day on, I was
not allowed to pick the raspberries anymore. Most children would
be happy by this, but I was quite the opposite.
page made spring 2008