Professor Xu asks one of her graduate TA's to test her work by pretending he is one of her students. He opens MGX in the folder Spring2008Greenhouse. He notes that it behaves just the way last year's version did, although the organisms and the biochemistry are completely different.

He succeeds in understanding the genetics and biochemistry of floribunda well enough to create the true breeding phenotype Professor Xu has asked for.

He tells her he thinks this is a really cool lab.