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Blog Post #8

                                                                   Blog Post #8 1) The leafs have the biggest variation because they different shapes and sizes like on our plant(Yordi, Isaac,Aiden) have oval shaped leaves that are very large. The characteristic with the most variation is the stem of the plant. Some of the plants have green stems and others have purple stems but most of the plants out there  are purple. Also variation is in the height, our plant is the shortest ad smallest plant and others in the flower bed are much taller and some are wider. And no brassica is ever the same height and width. 2) In different brassica´s there is alt of variability because of the gene and the traits. The plants use selective breeding to give their younger plants different traits to see which have advantages which is smart for the plants to see which changes up the plants genes. With those changes the effect of descent modifiation happens and the new plants pass down down their genes. I
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Blog #8 TSOTS

Final Blog Post 1) The part of the plant with the biggest variation are the leaves because they come in many different sizes and shapes like on my plant it has oval leaves that are very large with green veins. The characteristic with the most variation is the stem of the plants. Some plants have normal green stems but most have purple stems with purple veins on the leaves. Also some variation are in the plants height. My plant is the shortest plant in the garden bed and the plant behind it is the tallest one and some are in the middle, but no brassica plant is the same height. 2) There is a lot of variability in the forms of the brassica plants because of genes and traits. The brassica plants used selective breeding to give their children different traits to see which have an advantage which is smart for the plants to do which changes up the plant's genes. With that the effect of descent modification happens and the new and original plants pass down their genes. But in the b
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Anthers and Stigmas and Styles Blog Post #7

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                                                                 BlogPost#7  First things first in a flower you would need seeds. And we got these seeds because our original plant the Brasseca had to grow big enough and be healthy enough to grow these flowers that would have these seeds and all these different parts that we learned about. These parts would be the stigma, anthers, carpel, stamen and ovales. So first you would need the anthers which would produce the pollen and attract pollenators (bee) and send pollen to other plants. And then the bees with fly to the plant and basically sit on the stigma and would get stuck and extract the pollen. Then that pollen would go to the ovales and those would help fertilize the eggs, which would eventually become the seeds for the other plant. The image shows a close up picture of a brasseca flower. Which has pollentators take pollen and spread it to other flowers and then thse flowers get pollnators and so on.   This image shows the
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Blog Post #7: Anthers and Stigmas and Styles, Oh My!

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Blog Post #7:        In order for our plant to have been planted in the first place, we would need seeds. We got these through a very important process. It all began with another plant, that when it got big enough, began to grow flowers. These flowers would have multiple parts, including the anthers, stigma, stamen, carpel, and ovules. First, the flower would use the anthers to produce pollen, which is basically the sperm for plants. Then a Bee would pick up that pollen from the flowers and bring it to another flower. This bee would land on the carpel, and the pollen would get stuck on the stigma, because of their sticky tip. Then, that pollen would be transported to the ovules to fertilize the eggs, which eventually become seeds for another plant.        Here is an image of the flowers of our plant (or at least one near our's). In this image, it shows the anthers and the stigma of the flower, both which are parts of the flower reproductive system. These parts are the male
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Blog Post #6: How does our garden grow?

1) So far, our plant seems to be growing. This isn't without help from different processes within the plant, and it takes a lot of energy to keep the plant consistently growing. Where does the plant get all of it's energy? The plants get all of this energy from photosynthesis , which is a process that carbon dioxide and sunlight to create energy. In order to collect sunlight, the leaves of a plant contain mesophyl cells that have chloroplasts. This is the main area of photosynthesis occurs, and absorbs the light energy from the sun (or sometimes artificial lighting). This energy is stored as ATP, which helps change carbon dioxide into glucose. This glucose is used to help feed the plant. The plant then needs to get the energy ,or ATP, from the glucose that the plants had created in photosynthesis. This is done in a process called cellular respiration . Cellular respiration begins with glucose being broken down in the cytoplasm of a cell. Then, the pyruvate molecules are trans
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Blog post #7

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        So fertilization for Brassica plants starts when the spring comes and the plants begin to atrract pollenaters like bees and other types of insects and animals to spread their pollen to other flowers and the pollen comes from the anthers of the flower. Then when the pollen from one Brassica flower hits the stigma of the same species then the sperm of the pollen enters the ovary and begins the process of fertilization. After that they begin to produce Brassica seeds and the process starts from the beginning again. In the picture to the left it shows the stigma of the Brassica flower and the stigma is sticky so when pollenaters like bees land on the flower the pollen on the bee gets caught on the stigma and fertilization begins. The picture shows the Anther which produces the pollen of the flower or sperm and this is pollenaters ca take the pollen and pass it onto another Brassica flower.
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Blog Post#6

  How does your Garden Grow? Blog Post #6  1) Our plant is small but it is growing and that is what we care about. When my plant uses the process known as photosynthesis my plant makes its own energy so it can survive. This process begins when the plant recieves  nutrients to survive like water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide. When the plant gives out oxygen from the carbon dioxide it takes in the plant uses the energy. Since the energy the plant uses is for plant growth the cells then can start the process mitosis. The first step in mitosis is interphase when the cell is preparing to divide then comes prophase which is when the chromosomes of the cell are visible. Then metaphase comes and the chromosomes go into the middle to the fiber and attaches them together. Another step is anaphase and that is when the chromosomes divide. And the last step in the mitosis process is telophase. And then cytokinesis is when the cellis now 2 cells in which it is now 2 plant cells. 2)When a plant wa
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