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.