Gisselle Munoz's seed story blog post #8

Gisselle has learned that without the help of humans and nitrate plants wouldn't have grown very well. She was amazed by the fact that we had to cut the grass so that the plant could properly grow. She laughed because she thought the plants were being suffocated in the zip lock bag when it was actually germinating. She thought about the fact that plants wouldn't grow or exist if humans didn't take care of it. She realized in the garden that the plants went through a long process to sprout.

Ikenna's Seed Story

Ikenna learned that how nitrogen and nitrate how they positively affect plants and how plants affect humans on Earth. He was surprised how much that plants grew over a little amount of time and the weather conditions. Ikenna laughed about was when he thought that the plants would be suffocated by the zip lock bag when we first started breeding the seeds.  Ikenna paused and thought a little deeper of how some humans are ignorant about plants.

Ikenna Kuba's Seed Story

Ikenna has learned about the nitrogen cycle and how it affects the garden and plants growing.  Something that amazed him was how fast the cauliflower grew and it ended up sprouting really well and neat. He laughed when the team worked together and discussed how our plants weren't growing at first when they were in the ziploc bags. The fact that people are ignorant to how important the plants are not only to us humans, but to the environment made him think how deep and necessary Brassica Oleracea plants are. He wants to know more about the history of cauliflowers, like where they were first planted.

One of a Kind: The Wonders of Biodiversity Blog #7

My group and I are growing the Brassica Cauliflower Oleracea. Kohlrabi and Chinese Kale are native to  southern and western Europe. I can tell from the organisms that my plant descends from things similar to brocolli, kale, and chard. The offsprings will grow as large as the parent plants or even larger from the results of the parent plants. The plant's offspring will pass its genetic information on to the next generation through mitosis. Do punnet squares can show traits of what the offspring may have. The plants offsprinng will look alie to the parents plants. The Brassica oleracea plants look similar because they may have the same ancestor plants and they may look different because they could have had different ancestors. The different forms come to be from just one ancestral species by just the traits and transferring on down the road to my baby plant now.

One of a Kind: The wonders of Diversity

I am experimenting with cauliflower. From looking at the plant, I can tell that its parent plants must have been white cauliflowers. Since orange and purple cauliflower have more nutrients and vitamins, I can tell that my plant's parents did not have all the extra vitamins and healthful nutrients. Looking at my plant, I predict the baby plants grown from the cauliflower's seeds will be white as well. I think my plant's offspring might look exactly the same or slightly different, considering all the other Brassica Oleracea being grown by the cauliflower may affect it. They all look different because they have different parent plants and genes or alleles. The cauliflower is in the Botrytis group.

ikenna kubas blog post #7

I am experimenting on the Brassica Olercea. Brassica Olercea is the species of plant that include many common foods as cultivars, including cabbage, brocoil, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard green. It is native to coastal southern and Western Europe. It's tolerance of salt and lime and it's intolerance of competition from other plants typically restricts its natural occurrence to limestone sea cliffs, like the chalk cliffs on both sides of the English channel. Through a process called mitosis, plants can divide their cells and produce their younger ones. Through linnet squares you can tell how it's pares re genotype the baby plant was. Chromosomes from the parent plant is passed on to the baby plants. It could pass its genetic information through its chromosomes, DNA and genes. It's offspring will look just like it because it's the same chromosomes passed to it. The plants might look different because of their amount of nutrient or because they have the same chromosomes but are arranged differently.

ikenna kuba #6

1. Plants need food to grow and they produce their own food through a method called Photosynthesis. Plants reproduce through a process called mitosis it is the division of cell. Cells convert biomolecules into usable energy for powering cell activities.
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Ikenna kuba #4

1. Abiotic factors: Animals and pests eat the plants.
Biotic factors: Wind, temperature and weather.
2. The plants compete with other plants for nutrients.
3. Whoever gets the most nutrient wins and who doesn't loses, the amount could be complicated.
4. digestion
5. they are a lot of plants and they all fight for nutrition

Ikenna kuba #3

1. The leaves, stem and branches are grown
2. Plants need water to grow.
3. Plants use carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen.
4. Plants use the nitrate from nitrogen.

ikenna's blog post #2

MA CAULIFLOWER
Cauliflower is one of the several vegetables in the species brassica oleracea. It is one of the worlds healthiest food. It contains vitamins. It contains potassium. It contains magnesium.

#6: How Does Your Garden Grow?

Plants need to grow and to grow they need food, plants produce their own food using a method known as photosynthesis. Cells reproduce by a method called mitosis (cell division), cells reproduce by dividing into smaller particles, which later grow to a cell. Cells convert biomolecules into usable energy for powering cell activities this process is called respiration.

#5: Living or Not

My plant has grown from a limpy seed to a strong greeny cauliflower . The size has grown from 3 centimeters and now its 6 inches tall. The leaves are larger and have survived through the rain storms and cold mornings and night.

Cell Analogy Project {Ikenna kuba and Alexis Mckenzie] period 6

The Cell Is Like The Federal Government

How does you garden grow

1. Plant mitosis is when a plant divides into two identical cells, known as daughter cells. By this process, our plant is getting bigger and adding more biomass since the cells are duplicating. With photosynthesis, our plants are receiving energy from the sunlight to make food for the plants. Throughout that process, they're releasing oxygen into the air. In respiration, plants burn energy to release carbon dioxide into the air, it produces water and carbon dioxide.

2.  The enzyme is created when a signal is sent to the nucleus of the cell with a specific DNA code. The code that is sent to the nucleus codes for the genetic sequence of the enzyme to be produced.

The plant is growing and I can tell because it's grown in height and it's leaves are broader

Living or not

Since we first planted the seeds, we have noticed the seeds have grown a lot since then. We can see they're living because they take in water and they've changed a lot. When we first put them in they were actual tiny seeds and now these seeds have sprouted, made roots, and have caused a stem with leaves to grow. We can measure if they're alive by checking and measuring their growth in size and weight every other day. This will show and convince us that the plants are alive because we will see if they're actually getting growing or if they're living. Once the caulifowers start coming out of the plant it will be proven that the plant is alive.

Ecological Analysis of the Garden

Some biotic factors the plants rely on are insects because they eat the plants. Some abiotic factors are the temperature, sunlight, water, and soil. The plants are competing with each other for sunlight and water, they are also competing for nutrients in the soil. There is no loser nor a winner as in the plants, although one plant may get more nutrients than the other, the other one will get them eventually. They store their nutrients so they aren't losing them. A way of interaction between them is them feeding other organisms, which keeps other organisms alive. There is evidence of succession in the garden because there are organisms living in the soil. This is secondary succession because there were already organisms living there and soil.

The Biogeochemical cycles

This week I noticed my plants grew a few inches and they had a lot of leaves on them. The water cycle relates to the changes in the plants by transpiration of water into the air. The carbon cycle participates by giving taking in oxygen and giving out carbon. In the nitrogen cycle, nitrogen is given out as the plant performs photosynthesis.

Ecological Analysis of the garden

Abiotic factors that my plants depend on are water, soil, sunlight, weather, climate, and minerals. Biotic factors that affect my plants are squirrels, people, rabbits, people. etc.

I know my plants are engaged with competition because they are in the same soil box as other types of plants. The are competing against each other for sunlight, and water.


"Winners" and "losers" are determined during this struggle because the "winners" keep producing, stay healthy, and people consuming this plant are also "winners". "Losers" die, struggle for sunlight and water, become flimsy and bent over. The determination may be complicated when the plants both seem to be "winners".


My plant interacts with weather and climate. This affects my plant because it may dry out and die because of droughts or freeze and die during winter because it is so cold.

The evidence of succession is occurring because all the plants in the garden are growing from previous soil that was most likely used from last year's plants. This is proof of secondary succession . My plant is in pre-existing soil and in a community of previously harvested organisms.

Biogeochemical cyles

The changes that I have noticed about my plant this week is that larger, green leaves have grown and there are no signs of dead leaves.


The way my plants participate in the water cycle is that it collects chemicals,nutrients, and protein from the water through the roots of the plant through the stem and leaves. Precipitation is the role that gives the plants the ability to take in the water. If there is the no water the plants will not be able to grow and will slowly stop producing.


The way my plants participate in the movement of carbon in the biosphere is it takes in carbon dioxide and water to form sugar and oxygen. The plant then breaks down the sugar and oxygen to receive energy to grow. In the past week, my plants have received enough carbon dioxide and water to grow greatly in the past few weeks.


The way my plants participate in the movement of nitrogen in the biosphere, nitrogen fixation breaks down all the nitrates to obtain oxygen for the plants. Other plants that are not vegetables convert nitrogen to ammonia to turn it to nitrogen fixation since plants can not purely take in nitrogen.

The Cauliflower Crew

The purpose of this project is to observe the changes in Brassicas. We got to experiment with the cauliflowers. Throughout the year, we watched the seeds germinate. They had to compete for sunlight and nutrients. They've grown and survived through the animals feeding on it. This Winter, they continued to sprout and went from being seeds into grown cauiflowers. They are white and round.

Autobiography: Gisselle Muñoz

           My name is Gisselle Muñoz and I was born in Santa Clara, California. I've lived in San Jose, California all my life. I have family in Mexico, Chicago, and Canada.

      I haven't really ever gardened before, but when I was in elementary school I helped grow some vegetables in our school garden. I remember having to dig the soil to plant the seeds and watch the seeds grow overtime. In my backyard, my dad has created a small garden which he plants food in. I know that my dad plants tomato seeds, squash, and some other vegetables. He tries to be very careful with them so they won't get more water than they need and animals will not get on them. I have seen him garden and I think it is interesting that a big vegetable was once a small seed. I am excited to learn more about plants.

Autobiography-Ikenna kuba

My name is Ikenna kuba , i'm from Nigeria, I have lived in Nigeria my whole live and recently moved to the United States of America. I have planted beans and corn, it was a nice experience and i was shocked when not all my seed grew. I have an aunt who has a garden and she grows tomato. She is not a farmer by profession, she and I are pretty close

Autobiography-Alexis McKenzie

My name is Alexis McKenzie and I am from  Los Gatos,California but now I live in San Jose. 

I've grown strawberries,snap peas,tomatoes and basil. I experienced that squirrels like to eat strawberries and when tomatoes get too much water their outer skin splits. My aunt Tiffini has a garden full of the hottest peppers in the world. She has been growing them for many years now. My aunt grows so many peppers she gives them to the whole family. She also puts many peppers in food that she cooks or just bites the peppers straight forward from the garden without eating it with anything. Sometimes during really cold or really hot weather her pepper plants start to die, but somehow she manages to revive them.