Blog Post #4

Brassica Oleracea is what we are experiment at this moment.  These parent plants are wild cabbage.  You can predict the traits of the baby plant because of the phenotypes.  You can carrique these traits by using tissue Control that makes the exact same plant.   They will pass the genes over  through pollination and seeds.  They could but there is too many variables for an exact answer.  The reason it looks different is because there are two many variables. So many different forms come to be from just one ancestral species because of selective breeding. Selective breeding is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits.

The Wonder of Biodiversity

The plant we are experimenting with is Brassica Oleracea. It is a green plant that you can eat. It is a cultivated kale plant. You could look at the genes of the parent cells and create an idea of what it's offspring would look like. Plants get these traits by the process of meiosis and eventually gamete formation. This gamete cell will give the plant its traits. The next generation will look similar to the parent but not exact. These plants grown closely together look different because of their genes. Their genes are different because of selective breeding. Selective breeding is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together. This is our brassic oleracea kale plant.

Crop Failure Experiment Analysis

Our hypothesis is that a bird sized animal attacked our plant which caused it to die. This was our hypothesis because when we analyzed our crop after it had been eaten, the marks on our Kale plant were teeth marks that a worm couldn't make. The independent variable is the bird sized animal because it caused the potential death of the plant. The dependent variable is the dead plant because it was the resulting condition of an object. The controlled variable in this experiment was the soil. For our experiment we decided to put a chicken in a triangle structure under our plant. When we began the chicken was vigorously digging at the dirt and pecking the plant. Then he began to digging deep holes in the dirt, until eventually there was no plant left because he ate it all. From beginning to start it took the chicken 10 minutes to dig around the plant and devour it all. In conclusion, this shows that the chicken caused our kale plant to die. 

Experiment

For our experiment we plan on replanting Brassica seeds, and waiting until they grow. Once they are grown we plan on a putting a chicken in a pyramid shaped box with the plant an observing its behavior around it, and recording the data. We plan observing how many times the chicken pecks at it, dividing the the box into quadrants and seeing how much time he spends in them, and seeing if the chicken moves any of the mulch. We will check up on it in a couple of weeks when have completed our experiment and have recorded data. 

Hypothesis

HYPOTHESIS!

My hypothesis is that a bird sized animal attacked our plant which caused it to die. The independent variable is the bird sized animal because it caused the potential death of the plant. The dependent variable is the dead plant because it was the resulting condition of an object.

EVIDENCE!!!!!!!!

PICTURE A:

The top photo represents the remains of our plants, and the bottom photo is the mulch which was once on top. It had to have been moved by an animal of at least the size of a large bird.

 PICTURE B:

The chicken represents a bird size animal which could potentially have moved our mulch and destroyed our plant.

PICTURE C:

The mallow was a plant that was competing with the kale plant for the soil, and it came up once our kale plant was officially dead.

The Story Of The Seed

Hi my name is Anthony Santamaria. I have lived in San Jose, California since I was born in 2000. I've never actually grown anything, but I've always watched my aunt grow plant after pant since I was little.

Since I was little I would always go to my aunts and would always find her outside in here backyard watering, fertilizing, planting new plants, etc.. She would always make trips to Home Depot to buy more plants and fertilizer and would always spend over $100. I asked her why she loved plants so much, and she said they were here friends. Her whole backyard is filled with plants from left to right. One memory I have is when I was little is being in the backyard with my aunt and she was near her sugar plant, and she cut a piece of and told me to try it. I was a little scared trying out because I had never tried anything straight out from the garden, and I remember taking the first bite and tasting nothing but juicy sweet sugar. When this project is over I hope to plant something and track its growth.