Prof. Xu is ready to populate a greenhouse with floribunda samples. She creates folder "Spring2008Greenhouse" and copies floribuda.spc there.

She opens floribunda.spc in the Species Editor to see the table showing how pairs of alleles map to phenotypes.

She selects a pair of alleles for flower1, the first organism she will create. She asks the Editor to generate a pair of DNA sequences that encode the protein templates for the selected alleles. Then she saves the sequences in file flower1.organism.

She continues stocking the greenhouse with several organisms, some with the same phenotype but different alleles. She doesn't include every possible phenotype, but does make sure that mutation can convert the ones that are there to each of the possible phenotypes she plans to have her students discover when they do the lab exercise.

(The Species Editor shows her what's in the greenhouse so far, so she can keep track of what she's done, and can delete organisms if she changes her mind.)

When she's done she emails her graduate TA, asking him to check her work.