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.