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Isabella takes a variety of dance classes, including ballet, jazz, lyrical, tap, and modern. She also enjoys yoga, swimming, and skiing. She'd like to become a scientist someday, because "in science you can help humanity and improve conditions to live."
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Because Isabella's father owns a small pilot lobster farm, she became interested in finding out what conditions help these animals to grow the fastest. Understanding how to grow lobsters quickly to a marketable size could help farmers sell more lobsters while using the fewest resources. She decided to experiment with two conditions that affect the animals' farm habitats: water temperature and the protein content of their food.
Working at her father's lobster farm, Isabella separated groups of lobsters into 6 inflatable pools. In half of the pools, she kept the water the same temperature but fed the lobsters either 20-percent, 30-percent, or 40-percent protein food. In the other pools, she fed all the animals 35-percent protein food but set the temperature at either 22°C, 27°C, or 32°C. She discovered that higher temperatures boosted the lobsters' growth rates, but higher protein-content food seemed to slow it down.
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