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.