Monday, December 15, 2014
Assignment 5
My plant is a living thing because it respirates and grows. The plant takes in CO2 and emits oxygen and if you look close enough the plant cells divide and multiply. Also the plant uses energy and grows and adapts. The plant adapts to survive and will change its color to survive. the plant also reproduces and creates more to take its place.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Helen's Seed Story
interviewed by Ryan Keeney
Q: What have you learned?
A: I learned about the biotic and abiotic factors that can affect the plant's growth. I found out small things like soil can make an impact on the plant's health.
Q: What surprised or amazed you?
A: I was surprised by the plants' determination to live, despite our harsh experiment and the competition in the garden. Our experiment for pH killed many of the plants yet some of hem managed to continue on. This was very surprising to me.
Q: What made you laugh?
A: The fact that we did not know the correct amount to water our plants with made me laugh. ?I find it funny that a group of student in Honors Biology can do the work we are given and understand things like the biogeochemical cycles and the DNA replication process, but apparently have no clue how much to water a simple plant.
Q: What made you pause and think a little deeper?
A: The blog post where we considered the genetics of our plant made me think a lot
Q: What have you learned?
A: I learned about the biotic and abiotic factors that can affect the plant's growth. I found out small things like soil can make an impact on the plant's health.
Q: What surprised or amazed you?
A: I was surprised by the plants' determination to live, despite our harsh experiment and the competition in the garden. Our experiment for pH killed many of the plants yet some of hem managed to continue on. This was very surprising to me.
Q: What made you laugh?
A: The fact that we did not know the correct amount to water our plants with made me laugh. ?I find it funny that a group of student in Honors Biology can do the work we are given and understand things like the biogeochemical cycles and the DNA replication process, but apparently have no clue how much to water a simple plant.
Q: What made you pause and think a little deeper?
A: The blog post where we considered the genetics of our plant made me think a lot
Ryan's Seed Story
Interview by Helen Hills
Q: What have you learned?
A: I learned that all life in the ecosystem is interconnected and that the plants can affect the other animals and bugs living nearby.
Q: What surprised or amazed you?
A: I was surprised by that plants of the same species and genus can produce different plants.
Q: What made you laugh?
A: Nothing in this experiment made me laugh.
Q: What made you pause and think a little deeper?
A: I thought about the individual reactions of the cells to the chemicals we poured on them.
Zachary's Seed Story
Question: What have you learned?
Answer: I have learned how to write a blog, and how to study and grow a plant that affect our ecosystem.
Question: What surprised or amazed you?
Answer: That the baking soda made a cake on top of our plant and instantly killed it.
Question: What made you laugh?
Answer: The " death trap" and messing with Divina
Question: What made you pause and think a little deeper?
Answer: How the plant is able to grow from a tiny seed to a giant thriving flowering adult.
- Divina Rodriguez
Divina's Seed Story
Interviewer: Zachary Wright
interviewee: Divina Rodriguez
Q:What did you learn by doing the Story of the Seed project?
A: I have learned how plants grow using photosynthesis and the system the plant has contributed to.
Q: What surprised or amazed you?
A: How fast and big our one plant grew and how fast we were able to kill the others.
Q: What made you laugh?
A: Zachary made me laugh along with the fuzzy white baking soda death trap.
Q: What made you pause and think deeper?
A: Finding the relationships between the plant and its ecosystem
interviewee: Divina Rodriguez
Q:What did you learn by doing the Story of the Seed project?
A: I have learned how plants grow using photosynthesis and the system the plant has contributed to.
Q: What surprised or amazed you?
A: How fast and big our one plant grew and how fast we were able to kill the others.
Q: What made you laugh?
A: Zachary made me laugh along with the fuzzy white baking soda death trap.
Q: What made you pause and think deeper?
A: Finding the relationships between the plant and its ecosystem
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
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Thursday, December 4, 2014
Blog Post Assignment #7
Our Plant
Our plant is kohlrabi, a type of cabbage that has a spherical bottom and very similar to a cabbage heart. Our plant in particular is one of the varieties that is a vibrant purple. You can tell from the parent plants of our plant that these plants needs a specific environment to thrive in. You can also tell that all of the different forms of brassica oleracea all are similar in taste and appearance to one or both of the parent plants. I assume that the offspring of our plant will have most of the traits of our plant now. The plants would acquire these traits by gaining some of the DNA in the parent’s chromosomes. As explained in meiosis the cell splits up in a way that will let the offspring receive some of the traits of the parent. The plant will pass on its genetic information through the DNA in the cells. The offspring for these plants will not look exactly the same as the parent as the traits from the two parents as the traits given to the child are mixed so the baby plant will be different. Our plant looks different from the others because different traits have been passed along through it.
The parent plant
There are so many new plants created from the simple first one. They are all so different because they have traits from other plants that created the new baby plants.
Post 7
We are experimenting with the kohlrabi plant or the scientific name Brassica oleracea. I can't tell what parents our plant came from unless we do extent research. We can predict what the offspring that our plant will be by looking at the genes of our plant and the plant that we would breed with it then find the dominant and recessive genes then create a punnet square. These traits would be transferred to the offspring through the process of meiosis where the plant creates sex cells which has a mix of its genes in it and then transfer that to the female part of the plant. Meiosis is where one diploid creates a complete duplicate of itself then splits. Then those two cells line up their chromosomes which cross-over then they are pulled apart creating unique daughter cells which are only haploid cells. These cells are then transferred during sex or mating season between the two genders of plants. The plants offspring will look like the parent but may not behave the same. This happens due to the chromosomes and genes mixing providing different genes. All the plants look different because they grew up in different places and had to adapt to survive along with the mixing of genes creating new species. The variety has become so create because the genes have been mixing for so long there is tons of variation.
Assignment #7
Our plant, more specificly the Brassica Oleracea also known as kohlrabi, had a purple cabbage like structure. The offspring of the plant would probably have many dominate traits to their parents. The parent traits were inherited by the offspring through genes passed down from each of its' parents. Continuing on through a life time of it genealogical chart. The offspring will not look identical to the parent plant, due to the fact that genetic crossover occuring in meiosis. Also, the fact that it only inherits half of its DNA from each parent. Even though the plants planted in the garden are the same species, our vegetable produces different things because of slight variation of genes turning on and off in diffrent conditions. There would one need to have a specific breeding or two adapt to their individual environment.
- Divina
Student Blog Post Assignment #7
by Ryan Keeney
We are experimenting with the cultivar of Brassica Oleracea known as kohlrabi, which produces a purple vegetable very similar to a cabbage. The offspring of these plants would probably have very similar traits to their parents, as these traits were inherited by the offspring through genes passed down from each of its parents. The offspring will not look exactly like the parent plant, due to the fact that genetic crossover occurs during gamete production, as well as the fact that it inherits half of its DNA from each parent. Although all of the plants planted in the garden are the same species, the vegetables produced are different because of slight variations in which genes in the plant are turned on and off to produce a certain vegetable. All of these forms may have arisen from selective breeding by farmers in order to produce different vegetables, or they may have arisen from the need to adapt to their individual environments.
We are experimenting with the cultivar of Brassica Oleracea known as kohlrabi, which produces a purple vegetable very similar to a cabbage. The offspring of these plants would probably have very similar traits to their parents, as these traits were inherited by the offspring through genes passed down from each of its parents. The offspring will not look exactly like the parent plant, due to the fact that genetic crossover occurs during gamete production, as well as the fact that it inherits half of its DNA from each parent. Although all of the plants planted in the garden are the same species, the vegetables produced are different because of slight variations in which genes in the plant are turned on and off to produce a certain vegetable. All of these forms may have arisen from selective breeding by farmers in order to produce different vegetables, or they may have arisen from the need to adapt to their individual environments.
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| Wild-type Brassica oleracea |
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