We experimented with broccoli calabrese. It is a green, leafy plant that can be eaten. This plant grows extremely fast and is easy to take care of. The parents were short and had large leaves. Using a punnet square I could predict what the plants would come out as. The offspring receive these traits through the parents gametes joining and the way the genes lie up in the parents sex cells. This then determines how the zygote's nucleic acid is formulated. Our plant will pass the genetic information by meiosis creating new haploid daughter cells and then mating and passing the genes to the next generation. The offspring of our plants may or may not look like them. It depends on the chromosomes and how they line up, whether or not they cross over, and the matching of dominant and recessive alleles. Different plants of the same type can look completely different because of the massive array of alleles in genes. Whether or not the allele is dominant or recessive plays a big part as well as the parents involved in the making of the offspring.
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