The Story of the Seed

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...

                                                                 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 pi...

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 reproductiv...