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.

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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.