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.