blog post 9

David Blog Post #9

Question# 2

I think that there is so much variability in Brassica oleracea because the plant has been around for a long time and it has adapted to love in certain areas of the world and that causes it to be different colors and they look different too.Over the years some of the brassica has probley experienced  cross pollination.Scientist have genetically engineered some species of plants to look a certain way and that has carried on.The plants also undergo selective breeding which causes them to breed with certain plants and they cmd out looking different with different traits.

Blog Post #8-

             Biography

My name is David Lugo.I was born in santa clara and i have lived in San Jose for my whole life.
I enjoy playing sports and being outside.I personally do not have a garden but my grandmother does.I would consider myself a fun and optimistic person.

Blog Post #7- Plant Update and Meiosis

     It seems the parent plants for this plant were taller, and maybe stronger. If I knew what the parent plants looked like I might be able to make a punnett square and see what traits the offspring get. The parents would give the offspring each a certain amount of chromosomes. These chromosomes then split up through a process called meiosis. Meiosis is a process where cells copy chromosomes and divide until the pairs of chromosomes are split and the cells are turned into sex cells, or gametes. Most of the plants in the garden look different because they each had different parents. There are countless different possibilities that the plant could have turned out.

Blog Post #6- How Does Your Garden Grow?

     All of the plants in the garden have increased greatly over these couple months. I'm sure that the increase in biomass had to do with cell division. The plants' cell count have all increased using mitosis increasing biomass. Most of this starts with photosynthesis, the plant will make energy with the sun and give the cells enough energy to multiply and slowly have the plants grow.

Blog Post #5- Plant Update

     The Broccoli has grown immensely over the past couple weeks with the leaves increasing in size and has grown taller. The leaves are more now of a forest green. When we first saw it, it was only a seed, now it has grown so much and is doing better than most of the plants. I also saw many organisms around it living off of it, for instance I saw a ladybug on one of the leaves. The stem is a very sturdy stem and shows no signs of breaking.