Blog Post #4

The plant that our group is experimenting with is brassica oleracea.  I can tell that the plants aren't identical to their parent plants because they have evolved, but they obviously have their similarities.  The offspring of the plants will have very similar traits to their parents.  They have a higher chance of having similar traits to the parents if the plant reproduces asexually, but if they don't produce asexually (and reproduce sexually) then they will most likely have more different traits.  They would get different traits from reproducing sexually.  The male gametes transfer to the female ovules during pollination, which leads to fertilization, and the ovules grow into seeds.  The brassica oleracea can pass on its traits to the next generation by reproducing, either sexually or asexually.  They have a higher chance of producing plants with identical traits if they reproduce asexually, but if they produce sexually then they will pass on some traits, but not all, since there will be more variety.  The plants that we are growing have different traits because the plants evolve and they produce more plants that have different traits.  They also grow in different places and adapt to their environment.  Many different variations of the species came to be because the original one reproduced with other plants, which led to creation of different traits and different species.
 

Blog Post #5

 

                                       

                                           
In this sun flower, we put in under a light microscope and saw many parts of the flower. For example, in this flower you can see the pollen and with the help of bees, its pollen will hopefully end up on a flowers stem and create more sunflowers.

                            

In this picture you can see the pollen in the stems, in a few weeks it might be creating another flower.

It was hard to put the phone camera in the microscope but I think we did alright. In a flowers reproduction, the bees are a very important variable when it comes to reproduction of flowers and plants. They are the ones doing all the transportation of the flowers pollen to another flower.

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Evidence

                  New evidence has bin collected from the garden which are the following.

                 We found this stink bug in our garden and we believe he has been eating our plants.
                 Here are more pictures of the situation.

                      Here we see a plant that has been eaten by something, we assume this because it has several holes on it, which looks like bug bites.

Hypothesis

                          Our hypothesis  is that the stink bugs (aka cabbage bugs) have been eating all of our plants and since our plants were very small they could have been eating in a matter of days.

               Our group [good guys grow green growing goods getting great growth in knowledge] will be testing this theory soon.                                              

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       One of our members are already at work and hes trying to figure out how the weeds might have decreased the chances of our plants to get water, and maybe that's how they died. Theory still at work.

     

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                     So far we have found insects and a lot of weeds here are some of the examples.

                                                                                                                                                                       Blog post #3 ;What happen to the plants?

In our attempt of planting brasseca plants, the plants died and mysteriously disappeared. Because of this unfortunate even,we decided to do a different experiment which is finding out what killed the plants,or what happened to them.This will take a couple of days to gather information and evidence but will pull though.


OK, a couple of days have passed and we now have a hypothesis, our hypothesis is that the weeds around our plant were too many and they took over the plant which is why there isn't any trase of the plant anymore.

My Relation to Gardening by Uriel Z.

My name is Uriel Zaragoza and I am originally from Michoacan,Mexico.I moved here in 2011. In the past i've gardened a little . For example I would help my uncle on a few acres of land he used to have He had Green tomatoes,tomatoes ,beans ,Chiles and I do not remember what else .I also helped in a community garden.My mom and dad are really good cooks I sometimes would wonder and ask my parents what they were adding to the food that they were making.I am also kind of interested in studying plant growth.I might plant a garden at home after this project.