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.

One of a Kind

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. 

James Bagby's Seed Story

I believe, in this team-based project, James has learned how to cooperate with his teammates.  He was surprised at first to find that he actually had to contribute towards the project.  He was even more surprised from the outcome of the story of the seed germination lab.  It was an incredible experience.  James is sure to look forward to what this course has in store for him next semester.

-Henry Tran

Ryann's Seed Story

   Ryann learned to take the role of a leader when her leader was not up to the task. She said she watched as Emily tried her best but still could not prevail and stepped up to the plate to help her teammate out. She was surprised at how a friendship formed from a bond of being a girl sparked between her and Emily.  Ryann laughed everyday at anything and everything. She found a light side to every part of the project and managed to frustrate and amuse her fellow partners. She was grossed out by the way the two boys of her team wanted her and Emily to do most of the work. She managed to whip them into shape though. Ryann stopped for a while and had a take two when Emily snapped at her unexpectedly about taking over her leadership. Emily apologized but slowly made a bigger effort to be more of a leader. This made Ryann happy because she wanted her new friend to become less of a follower. Ryann can not wait for next semester and the rest of her friendship.

Emily's seed story

   Emily Solano says that she probably learned more about leadership throughout the project than she has in any other projects as a leader. She told me that she was surprised when she was picked to be the leader of the group rather than someone else in the group. She laughed when we dropped the pots with the soil and sand with them. Also, she laughed with her new friends (project partners) said some random and funny things. She was grossed out when the boys got off topic sometimes and when she accidentally crushed a bug with her hand when she was scooping up the compost for our project. What made her do a double take was when the the seed in the sand started to grow faster than the others in the compost and the compost/sand mix. She is really looking forward to being with her story of a seed group next semester.

How does your garden grow?

1.Plants grow to become stronger and bigger by a process called mitosis. Mitosis is the process in which calls divide and grow. This process makes it possible for plants to grow bigger. Photosynthesis provides energy to the cell to preform mitosis.

2.My plants would go through a process of replicating DNA to make a replicated strand of RNA. This RNA Would help the cell be Producing the proteins that the nucleus asked for.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

1.  My plants are growing up to be big strong sturdy plants by their cells going through the process of mitosis. When their cells divide and make more cells making it possible for the plant to branch out and become bigger. The process of photosynthesis is preformed in the cell to provide energy so they may go through the process of mitosis to grow.
2.  My plants would go through the process of copying one strand of the DNA to make a complementary strand for RNA. The RNA would then produce the proteins the nucleus had signaled for. The RNA would replace T with U in the base pairing rules. The strand would then be read to make sure the proper proteins are produced.