Blog Post Assignment #8

Asking the Questions: Eddie
Answering the Questions: Emily

Q: What have you learned?

A: I learned that bubbly water is good for plants.

Q: What surprised or amazed you?

A: The fact that our plants survived for that long.

Q: What made you laugh?

A: The names we named our plants.

Q: What made you pause and think a little deeper?

A: How we were actually going to set up the experiment and what we were going to do it on.

I wonder what would’ve happened if we continued to water our plants with the water we were testing? What if we planted them in a different area?

Blog Post Assignment #7

Wild Brassica Oleracea plant

The plant we have been experimenting with is the  Brassica Oleracea. Brassica Oleracea has different species, including broccoli, our plant. What makes broccoli different from other forms of the Brassica Oleracea is where the starch is located on the vegetable. We got our seed for our plant from another broccoli plant. The genes from that plant are passed down to the next plant. Genetic information is passed down from generation to generation through gametes, and then are sorted out in the cell during the meiosis process. It is likely that the plant will look like one of the parents, since it is receiving that parent's genes. The Brassica Oleracea has so many different varieties because over time, different traits have been added, which causes different end products.

Our Broccoli Plant

Blog Post Assignment #6

 Our Plant is certainly getting larger. Because of mitosis, the cells are dividing and more and more cells are being produced which causes the plant to get larger. Cells are made by photosynthesis and then move around because of cellular respiration. If a signal was sent to the nucleus to make more Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) and ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) enzymes, more proteins would be made since enzymes are in proteins. After that, the rest of the cell would take care of those proteins.

Blog Post Assignment #5

Our Broccoli plant is definitely a living thing because of all the characteristics it displays. Our plant is growing larger and starting to develop some more color. There are even some signs of food growing. If this was not living, the plant would start to lose color and scrunch up with no signs of food. The plant is gaining color because photosynthesis is taking place. The chlorophyll throughout the plant is what is causing the green pigment.

Blog Post Assignment #4

Some abiotic factors that our plant depends on are water, soil, and sunlight. Our plants are competing for resources from the soil, water, and sun. The plants have to compete with the other living things in that area, and needs to make sure that it gets all the resources it needs before it is too late. In order to be a "winner" the plant has to adapt to the environment and get everything it needs in order to stay alive. You can tell who the winners are by seeing if they are the right size, the right color, and are in the right shape. The plant interacts with the bugs and animals that come eat the harvest. The plant is helping the animal stay alive, although the plant does get damaged by this. There is evidence that there is secondary succession occurring in our garden. The weeds are growing on the soil that was already there, which makes it secondary succession.

Blog Post Assignment #3

I did not notice lots of changes in our group’s plant. The brassica oleracea, or broccoli, is doing great, it’s growing bigger and the leaves are turning darker. Our plant will take in the water that is given to it and that is it’s role in the movement of water in it’s cycle. There aren't any signs of animals that show on our plant, and weeds do not affect it yet. The water helps the plant grow, so if the water was taken away, the pant would die. The plant absorbs the carbon dioxide in the air while in process of the carbon cycle. The plant needs sunlight to survive because it gets all of it’s energy from photosynthesis. The plant takes in nitrate and then releases ammonia while in process of the nitrogen cycle.

Meiosis Stop Motion

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Oydb3Lzn6VOEVnOG5qbUJ2V1U/view?usp=sharing

Blog Post 8

Interviewer: Emily Eide

Interviewee: Angelina Taing

Q: What have you learned?

A: I have learned that bubbly water isn’t bad for you and can help plants grow.

Q: What surprised or amazed you?

A: Our plants surviving and the bubbly water not killing our plant.

Q: What made you laugh?

A: The names we made for our plants made me laugh.

Q: What made you pause and think deeper?

A: When we were choosing which water to use to water our plants it made me think about what was in the waters a predict which would make our plant grow more. I wondered what would happen if we kept watering one of our plants with bubbly water and which plant would survive the longest.

Blog Post #8 Emily"s Seed Story

Q: What have you learned?

A: I learned that bubbly water is good for plants.

Q: What surprised or amazed you?

A: The fact that our plants survived for that long.

Q: What made you laugh?

A: The names we named our plants.

Q: What made you pause and think a little deeper?

A: How we were actually going to set up the experiment and what we were going to do it on.

I wonder what would’ve happened if we continued to water our plants with the water we were testing? What if we planted them in a different area?

Hypothesis

I believe the more the PH the more bubbles will form.

Materials

• Mortar and pestle
• 12 mL Distilled water
• 3 100-liter plastic beakers
• 5 mL syringe
• 2 1 mL syringes
• 1.5 mL Hydrogen peroxide
• 1 Paper towel square (for filtration)
• 5 glass test tubes
• Test tube rack or holder
• Small plastic ruler
• Safety glasses

• .2 mL Hydrochloric acid solution pH 2-3
• .2 mL Hydrochloric acid  solution pH 3-4
• .2 mL Sodium hydroxide solution 10
• .2 mL Sodium hydroxide  pH 12
• pH test strips

Procedure

10 ML of water with 5 grams of oat grass

mash those together with the mortar and pestle and filtered it into the beakerAfter

use 1.5 of that solution in each of the five tubes along with .3 of hydrogen peroxide in each tub

.2 of each of the solutions were placed into the separate tubes that were marked for that certain pH

The final step was to measure the change of the different tubes compared to the control

This was done by measuring the height of the bubbles every 5 seconds.

Data

Conclusion

In conclusion

Conclusion

In conclusion the more PH the more it varies and goes up and down. Then when there is less PH the more solid the bubbles become. So my hypothesis was incorrect because I thought the more PH the more bubbles will form but they didn’t the bubbles just went up and down

Blog post #8: Interview with Eddie

Interview with Eddie Negrete aka the baller

Q:  What have you learned?

A:Bubbly water is not bad for the plant.  I found that really interesting

G:What surprised or amazed you?

A:  The bubbly water didn't kill the plant.

Q:What made you laugh?

A:  The silly names of the plants made me laugh.

Q:  What made you stop and think?

A:*Eddie thinks to himself*  Where does the first seed come from?

Q:  Did you enjoy this project?

A:  *Eddie thinks to himself*  What a wonderful world. -- Eddie didn't actually say this one. :)

Phases of Meiosis with Anika Bailey

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2Ahmn7k_Y9VME50S0I4djJmNUE/edit?usp=docslist_api

Meiosis Stop-motion

Emily Eide and Cyndi Smith stop-motion meiosis
http://youtu.be/RGgvABj1u6A

Blog Post #7

We are experimenting with Brassica Oleracea.  Now, I cannot tell much about its parent plants because I have not looked at thousands of different Brassicas.  But, even I can see this plant's very

prominent red stem.  That may have been something passed down from its parent plants.  It is also hard to predict the traits of this plant's offspring because we have not seen the plant that it would
fertilize with.

However, traits that our plants offspring did get from it would be a result of our brassica's gametes.  These gametes are created via meiosis.  As you can see from the video that you may have just watched meiosis is the formation of haploid cells.  These gametes then fertilize with another plant in order to make new plants.  This is also how our plant ill pass on its genetic information to the next generation.  Since the new plants are being formed with its haploid cells, the new plant has a part of ours in it too.

 

Our plant's offspring will probably end up looking mostly like our plant now, but with a few changes.  We can by no means however, guarantee exactly what it will look like.

 

All Brassica Oleracea are the same species but they are obviously very different.  This is because all Brassica have different genes which make them able to have starch in different areas of the plant.  Farmers over time have realized this and specially bred different brassica in order to get the different varieties that we have today.

Blog Posts Assignment #7

 Our Brassica Oleracea:                                    Cabbage Brassica Oleracea

     

The plant we have  been growing is cabbage, a form of Brassica Oleracea. You can venture to guess how the parent cell will look because it looks similar to pictures of other cabbage plants that i have seen. Other types of cabbages have big, thick leaves with purple stems, our plant also looks similar. The offsprings would be cabbage or some similar plant. They would get their traits from their parent plants through meiosis. The offsprings would probably look very similar to their parent plants, with big green leaves and purple stems. Even though everyone in our class grew some type of Brassica Oleracea, they all look different because we all have different species. There are so many different forms (polymorphisms) that come from one ancestral species because they blend with different species and made new offsprings. 

Blog Post Assignment 7

Our Plant

Wild type Brassica Oleracea

The plant we are experimenting with is in the brassica oleracea family, and the plant in particular is broccoli. The broccoli plant is green, about seven inches tall and has big leaves. Just by observing the plant we can tell the traits it inherited from its parents such as its color, its size, the size of broccoli it produces, and how long it lives for. You can predict how an offspring will look like by putting the genetic information of the parents and putting it into a chart and then read the outcomes. The plant will pass the genetic information through its gametes and the genes will sort themselves out in meiosis. There is a possibility that the plant will look exactly like one of its parents but its highly unlikely the offspring will have a mixture of the different traits. The brassica oleracea look so different from each other because of evolution, adaptation, and the different traits everyone of them has inherited over many years.

If these two plants were to make an offspring the combinations of way it would look like would be infinite. We don’t know which genes are recessive and which genes are dominant in these plants so the answer remains unanswered to determine what the offspring would look like.

Sam Friedman Meiosis Stop Motion

Sam Chamberlain, Sam Friedman, and Zachary wright: http://youtu.be/LwDz7Pj9sDg