blog post #10

this is a picture of the brassica flower. This is just a general picture of the petals and the flowers stem.

This is a picture of the Stamen, The tip of the stamen is called the Anther, the Anther produces pollen. The Filament is, the filament holds and anther up.
Anther: an oval sack where meiosis takes place, producing haploid male gametiphytes-pollen Grains.
This is the male part of the plant flower

This is a picture of pollen grains, the center is an air bubble. There are air bubbles because we had to use a wet mount slide to make this posable.

This is a picture of the Anther and the Carpel the feather looking things on the side are the anthers and the middle rod is the carpel.

This is the carpel sliced in half, the first picture has the ovule, the little ball is the ovule. The little ball looking things in the carpel is the ovules. These are the female part of the plants.

These plants reproduce by having pollen form on the filaments, After it forms they wait for bees to rub their legs on the pollen. After it attaches to their legs they fly to another flower and have the pollen fall into the ovule. The pollen then fertilizes the ovules and makes seeds. The seeds fall get eaten and spread.

Blog Post #10

            This is the picture of the flower at regular eye vision.

                                                 

   This is the picture of the male anatomy.

                                             

  This is a picture of the female anatomy. 

                     These are pictures i took of the plant called Brassica oleracea. This plant is very popular and mostly visual all the time. There is a picture of the flower at regular eye sight and of the male anatomy and female anatomy. The male and female anatomy are taken under the microscope.

Do you want to live a million years

Q: How many rounds did it take for you to finally win a game? Why do you think it took this long? What do you think this means/suggests for most real species on Earth in terms of their species's chances of long-term survival?
 It took me a total of two tries to complete the game, i think it took this long because i picked the best creatures for the game. I also made all the creatures different, i think this helped with chance of them surviving because they all had different traits. I also think it has to do with luck.

Q: Which initial phenotypes/phenotype combinations did you select and why?Which starting/initial combinations seemed to allow you to continue/survive the longest (win the most games)? Why do you think this was so?
I  Started with all long necks of the same species and they didn't survive at all. The ones that survived where furry long neck and camo. I think they survived because the meteorite crashed and it was very cold, so the long fur helped.

Q: Do you think this population of theoretical creatures would be greatly affected by genetic drift? What evidence of drift did you see as you played the game (simulation)?
Well i think they could be, all the creatures were fairly the same so if another type drifted in they could really effect the way the creatures look and act. I saw my creatures change colors when i added a different spices they changed color and different body types. I added a short neck to my long necks and they started to change to short necks.


Q: Which alleles/phenotypes seemed to be dominant and which seemed to be recessive? How could you tell?
I think the long necks where dominant until i added short necks into the mix and that changed all the creatures, there was more variety in the mix. The recessive was probably the fur because the when a new creature the fur didnt really change, the new creatures fur was changed to the others in the group. It really depends though the recessive and dominant alleles/ phenotypes seemed to change with other attempts.

Q: Match the environments/situations/conditions below with their corresponding adaptations:
(a) cold conditions: I added short and furry creatures.

b) hot conditions: I added tall and no fur creatures

(d) new tall food source: added creatures with long necks

Q: How would you improve this simulation to more realistically represent natural selection and biological evolution? Discuss at least three improvements.
I would add new natural disasters, new predators, and new creatures. I would do this because it would change they way we have to set up a creatures, we would have to think about earth quakes, fires and other things. The predators would affect the creatures because they would need new camo.

GATTACA

GATTACA

The Human Spirit

In The movie GATTACA it is about a man named vincent. Vincent was a natural birth without any of the special modifications other people are getting. He also has a brother who was technically made in a lab and has no physical unlike his brother who has a vision and heart issue. This quote that i picked had to do with spirit, no matter how good you physical features are, you can't change spirit. For example Jerome was perfect he had everything he needed, But he was flawed in one thing his spirit. Also vincent had many body problems but he had a very strong spirit and will to succeed.

This issue is shown through the movie in many different ways, from a strong will power to a very little one. The two major examples where vincent and jerome, Jerome had everything and vincent did not. Vincent couldn't get into GATTACA because he didn't have the proper validation, he wasn't made in a lab. He also had eye, heart problems, and wasn’t supposed to live past 30. But he had a very strong will power and spirit. Even with this vincent did everything in his power to get into GATTACA. Jerome however, had everything, the body, and the power to get into GATTACA, which he did. Jerome however didn’t have a powerful soul, he had drinking problems and depressed. Also he had a problem with competitions, he was in a swimming race and he didnt come first, he came second. Instead of accepting his place he got depressed and walked in front of a car breaking his back. Jerome then was crippled and had to stay in a wheel chair.

I feel that you can’t have one without the other, You can't have the perfect physical set-up without the perfect emotional set up. All those perfect traits could go to waste like they did with jerome because he could see past his failures and see how lucky he is. Unlike vincent he had the perfect mindset to go above and beyond the average person. Unfortunately vincent didn't have the body to make his dreams come true, he was a natural birth so he had defects. But even with these he did his best to achieve his goals.

#9

Our group found that the part of the plant with the different characteristics are the leaves. We saw that the leaves varies from large to small also the leaves come in different colors. Some of the plant leaves where purple while others had pink leave stems with green leaves. The leaves on all the plants where different, we thought it was very interesting. 
I think there is so much variation in the brassica oleracea from mutation and selective breeding. In certain areas the native people could have breed the plants in a specific way so they might grow faster. They could also have breed them so they would be more useful to the people. The plants also could have mutated to its native location. The plants could have grown slowly in a cold place so over a while the plants could have adapted to the climate. That could be the reasons for their different leave size.
The most similar part of the plant has to be the stems. Most of the stems are the exact same except for one plant. That one plant had like a ball at the base with leaves coming out of it. All the other plants had a straight  stems with leaves coming out of then.
For a breeder to make the plants more different the they already are they would have to do selective breeding. They would have to take the seeds out of the plant they like not out of the other ones. EX: i want the plant to be bigger, so you take the seeds out of the bigger plants only. You do that for a long period of time until you get what you want.

#8

This whole story of the seed project has been a fun and exciting project. Our group has enjoyed  working on these plants and excited to see how much they grew. It has been a good experience to see our plants t grow and see them start as a seed and then grow up to be a plant. We where surprised that our pants actually survived. When we first planted them it was rough they had a hard time. But then they started to grow and over come all the bad things.

michel says:The project was actually pretty easy, and i was surprised how much the plants grew. The blog wasn't that hard, the only part that was hard was coming up for what to write. Our group planted our plants in the right spot so it would get all the  nutrient it needed.

#6

Our plants are constantly growing. They use photosynthesis to get energy and grow bigger. Our plant also uses enzymes to speed up its photosynthesis, that way it can grow at a faster rate. At first our group thought that our plant wouldn't live and they would die. Fortunately they lived and are growing at a faster rate.