One of a kind: The wonders of Biodiversity

The plant we are using for this is Romanesco, which is similar to cauliflower. To tell what the chances are for baby plants to get certain traits, it's best to use a punnett square. The baby plants receive traits from their parents so they should have similar traits. The plants look different because they followed a certain genetic pathway enough so that they look much different than other types in the species.

How does your garden grow?

The plant grows bigger/gains more biomass by taking water and nutrients from the soil and makes more cells; in simpler terms, the plant takes things from outside, absorbs them, and grows bigger. If it needed more of those enzymes, it would absorb more nitrogen from the soil. Enzymes are in the protein bio-molecule group.

Living or Not

The plants have grown a lot since I last checked them, and they seem to be doing okay. Plants are a living thing because they grow and produce things like oxygen. If you do not give them enough water, sunlight or soil with lots of nutrients, then they will start to limp over and eventually die. The appearance has changed a lot as well, from being a small seed into a small stem with leaves and eventually into a full grown plant. You could measure the amount of things it requires to survive over time as it gets bigger in size.

An Ecological Analysis of the Garden and your Plants

1. Biotic factors: Sunlight, nutrients from the soil, temperature. Abiotic factors: 

2. They are growing over each other, and trying to grow taller. They are most likely fighting over sunlight.

3. Whoever gets ahead faster. Yes and no, if they are trying to fight over sunlight it's obvious, but for other reasons it might not be as obvious.

4. Trying to grow away from each other or onto other things. It effects how tall/thick it is.

5. Primary succession, the seeds are bought and put in the garden, instead of dying and putting more seeds in.

Biogeochemicals Cycles and Your Plants

1. Since I last checked, they got taller and the leaves started to grow outwards.

2. They take a part in the nitrogen cycle by taking it in from the soil.

3. When consumers produce waste or die, it puts nitrogen back into the soil and the cycle continues.

Biogeochemical Cycles and our Plants

Our romanesco, has not grown that much bigger, and there are a lot of bug eaten holes in them. Plants play a role in the nitrogen cycle, they absorb nitrogen from the soil. So when plants are eaten the creature that eats it it drops droppings with nitrogen that returns to the soil. Also when the plant dies the nitrogen returns to the soil then too. Plants need carbon too, so when a air breathing creature breaths out carbon. A plant breathes it in and expels out oxygen. Plants also play a role in the water cycle, when it rains plants pull up water through their roots, then some of the the water is evaporated out through the leaves. The water that is evaporated floats up into the atmosphere, until it rains.

Cris's Bio

My name is Cris Castillo. I live in Los Angeles, Mexico, Utah, and San jose. yes, I have grown food. When I go to Mexico I grown tomatoes and corn. My Dad know gardening and my mom and some of my family.

Ariyanna's bio

My name is Ariyanna Carrasco and I have lived in San Jose my whole life.

I have gardened before, my family and I grew tomatoes,lettuce,lemons and many others thing remember having to put soil and watering them daily. My father has his own garden and he has planted for a while my grandparents also make food from scratch and have there own farm.

Dillon's Bio

My name is Dillon Mulvany and I've lived in San Jose, California my entire life. I helped make the garden in Willow Glen Elementary, and I have a garden in my backyard. My mom grows a lot of things in the garden, like zucchini, basil, and lemons.

Elizabeth's biography

My name Is Elizabeth, I live in San Jose California.

In the past I did grow some tomatoes with my grandpa but I haven't grown 

anything for a few at all for a while. I really look up to my grandma in terms of gardening and making making food from scratch. Although she does not garden anymore she still is very knowledgeable.