Wonders of Biodiversity

The plant that we were experimenting with was the broccoli calabrese. From what I can tell the broccoli's parents plants were short and had large leaves. The way I would be able to predict The traits of the parents plant's offspring would be to use a punnet square with the genotypes. The way that I would be able to tell that the offspring would get these traits from their parents is from their parents gametes joining and how the genes would line up in independent assortment. The parents would pass their genetic information by meiosis, which would create new haploid daughter cells by mating and passing on the information. The offspring would look like a mix of their parents sometimes more than others depending it the genes that the plant got were dominant or recessive. The plants can look different or the same as their parents because of the alleles that the offspring got from them. The Brassica plants all look different because of their parents genes that were passed on to them could be more dominant or recessive than the other plants. There are among 3,000 species of the Brassica plants known to man.