Help with seed germination experiment (10 points)?

None of the colors or sizes matter as long as you have one of the same kind from each that you do not expose to the radiation from the microwave. Make sure the seeds you have, have an adequate match of the same kind and your experiment will be more controlled enabling you to make an accurate evaluation on the actual effects. If not then you will just be microwaving seeds and growing them without anything to compare them to you won't know anything besides how they grew against the other type of seed.

Um, ok, there are some issues that need to be sorted out here... 1) If you're doing a germination experiment, the thing you should measure is percent of successful germination. 2) If you're microwaving the seeds, you're cooking them (induced heat from the radiowaves at a specific frequency), which would have more effect than the 'radiation'. 3) If you put seeds in a microwave for 40 seconds, they're gonna be ******. Perhaps try shorter cooking times, say 2 seconds, 5 seconds, and 10 seconds for example. Check out this link to see what you're actually doing with a microwave: http://home.howstuffworks.com/microwave1.htm 4. Don't forget to have a control group of seeds (i.e. a batch that isn't cooked) so you have a normal baseline to compare the cooked groups to. I think this could be an interesting experiment. Use seeds that are normally easy to germinate, such as grass seed, tomato, or sunflower. You could even follow up by seeing if there is a difference in growth rate, or any abnormalities.

if you are germinating them(folding them in a wet paper towel and putting them in bags im guessing?) after the microwave Start to germinate the seeds(40s, 50s, 60s) at the same time and measure the length of the sprout that come out of the seed over a period of time (1 week, 2 weeks etc.) and compare them to the level and time of exposure to radiation

All, but size and roots are the most important.