About our Project

Our project is meant to teach us about plat life. During this project we will figure out how plat life relates to the rest of life. Another Reason for this project is teaching how to work in teams. and we will have a living thing to take care of as a group through out the year. By the end students will be able to communicate with each other.

Blog Post 7

We are expermenting with a cabbage variety known as ''Copenhagen market''. The species are Brassica Oleracea. I understand that the actual head of cabbage is inside the plant like a flower. The parent plants must have looked about the same but are slightly larger. The parent plants might have been grown in a large garden with a lot of room to grow. There were probably not too many competitors growing in the same environment as the parents. I can predict what will happen with the baby cabbage and what they will look like due to what their grandparents and parents look like. They will acquire all traits from the plant parent whose genes are dominant, so there will be other genes that are dominant over that plant. Genetic information transfers from plant to plant .The new chloroplast can be transferred to the next generation and allow small amounts of cytoplasm and cell organelles  to pass from one cell to another. The baby plants might have a few different features if the other plant that was paired with looks a little different. Even though they are being grown closely together, they were still born from different parents so they might have a few different features depending on who their parents are. The different forms of it came from meiosis or the transferring of genes.

Blog Post 5

The plant has not only grown its leaves and stems, but in addition there are more holes from the caterpillars which have consumed parts of the leaves. I have also noticed that there are more leaves and roots that are inside the soil. In order to observe whether or not the plant is still alive you can measure the amount of water there is on the leaves, you may also measure how green the plant is.

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The plants we are working on are called Brassica Oleracea.

Tylers Seed Story

Tyler says that he learned that growing plants is hard. Tyler was surprised how fast the plants few and how big they got. Tyler laughed that some people transplated the plants wrong and they died. Tyler said that the plant could just generate biomass out of the air and water.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

The plant is getting bigger because when it goes through cell division it makes more and more cells which make up the tissue of the plant. This makes its biomass increase. They also use photosynthesis to fuel them selves and take the energy from the sun and use it for its own use. Lastly they also use respiration to transfer the carbon dioxide to oxygen. If the plant needed an enzyme it would send an order to start to produce it and the cell would start to make it.

blog post 8 Owen's Seed story

Owen learned plants have a very interesting life. He was surprised the plants grew so fast and got so big. Owen thought it was funny when bugs ate other peoples plants. Owen thought interesting how the plants competed over sunlight and water.

Blog Post 8 Mateo's seed story

Interview

Mateo has learned how to plant vegetables how how critical plants are to our life.

Mateo was surprised by how many elements are involved in plant growth.

What made Mateo laugh was how rapidly they grew in such a short period of time.

Mateo thought a little deeper on how class lessons were involved on plant growth.

Mateo wondered how plants defend themselves against other competitors.

Alan's seed story

Q: What have you learned

A: Ive learned how  plants grow through photosynthesis. as well as what they need to grow.

Q: What Surprised you or amazed you .

A: i was surprised at how fast the plants grow. and at how easy it was .

Q: What made you laugh

A: how small some plants were compared to the others.

Q: What made you pause and think deeper

A: the in depth explanation on how plants grow

Q: what questions do you have about things you observed or experience in the garden.

A: How useful are worms other insects to the growth of plants.

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Our plant is growing through cell division. When our plant absorbs enough nutrients the cells inside divide and the plant grows. our plant uses photosynthesis to turn sunlight into energy. it has been raining recently so our plant looks healthy and is standing strong. Our plant uses respiration to turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.

Blog post 5

The plant is surely alive, it looks better than last time we saw it. Last time it looked weak and small. Now, even though it has holes in its leaves it has grown really big and looks healthier than ever. Its roots also has expanded more because i can see them moving to other plants area. The plants are big and and look very bright green, not a pale green like last time.

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Some abiotic factor that effect our plant is the type of weather, location, and competition. Some biotic factors are insects, other plants, and the care it gets.

I know the plants are in competition because some of our plants look healthier than he others. The plants are competing for water, sun light , and space to keep growing. The competition is the other plants because they also want the resources to live.

The winners in this are the plants that live and survive, the ones that loose are the ones that die because they're not strong enough. It's not always clear who wins and who looses. It's sometimes complicated to tell because the plants sometimes look healthy but aren't.

The other interaction that the plant has is when it reproduces. This is important because the whole point of an animals life is to reproduce and get more of its kind.

The garden is going through primary succesion because there was already soil but then it grew into more plants and became a garden.

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We are expermenting with a cabbage variety known as ''Copenhagen market''. The species are Brassica Oleracea. i can see that the actual head of cabbage is inside the plant like a flower. The parent plants must have looked about the same but bigger. The parent plants might have been grown in a large garden with a lot of room to grow. There were probably not that many competitors growing in the same environment as the parents. I can predict what will happen with the baby cabbage and what they will look like due to what their grandparents and parents look like. They will acquire all traits from the plant parent whose genes are dominant, so there will be other genes that are dominant over that plant. Genetic information transfers from plant to plant .The new chloroplast can be transferred to the next generation and allow small amounts of cytoplasm and cell organelles  to pass from one cell to another. The baby plants might have a few different features if the other plant that was paired with looks a little different. Even though they are being grown closely together, they were still born from different parents so they might have a few different features depending on who their parents are. The different forms of it came from meiosis or the transferring of genes.

Blog Post 6

The key factors that contribute to  our plant's growth include sunlight and rain which are main factors in the role of photosynthesis. Through photosynthesis the plant gains natural energy from the sun converting water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates. These carbohydrates then become either leaves or fruit which can be consumed. The plants biomass will increase as the leaves and fruit do. By cell division the plant is taking nutrients from the soil and goring rapidly.

Enzymes involved in photosynthesis include PEPC and Rubisco,  because of these enzymes the plants activation energy is higher in the light than in the dark where there is no sun. These enzymes speed up chemical reactions which take place in the plant's cells and as create ATP molecules or a nucleotoid which has a large amount of chemical energy.

how does your garden grown blog post 6

Sunlight and rain contribute to the growth of our plant.  The plant uses the energy it gets from the sun through the process of photosynthesis. During photosynthesis, plants will use the sun's light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and carbohydrates. These carbohydrates are basically the plant leaves and fruit, which are consumed by people and animals.  As the plant's leaves grow, the biomass of the plant will increase. Biomass is a measure of the amount of organic matter. Our plant is also taking nutrients from the soil and growing through the process of cell division.

PEPC and Rubisco are enzymes involved in photosynthesis. That means that the activity of these enzymes is high in the light and low in the dark. These enzymes speed up chemical reactions that take place in the cell and they also create ATP molecules. ATP is a nucleotide that has a large amount of chemical energy . 

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Our plant is getting bigger and is not wilting those are signs of life. the plant looks like it has been getting enough water and sunlight so it has been getting bigger. photosynthesis is how out plant turns sunlight into nutrients. Our plant should keep growing until it is a foot tall.

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1 weather and temperature

2 our plant is fighting for water and sunlight with the other grasses and plants.

3 when a plant loses the struggle it will be over crowded and will not recieve enough sunlight or water. the plant can die or stop growing.

4 When the grass around our plant dies it gives our plant nutrients which it needs to survive.

5 The smaller plants around have stopped growing because our plant over shadows them. The bigger plants succeed over the smaller plants.

Blog Post 3

The plants look fine but they do have some hole on the leaves. They look like they were eaten by some insects. I think they may be caterpillars or larva. The plant are looking really big compared to how they looked last week. The plants use the water to be able to provide sustenance for itself. So by it staying alive it uses us humans for the next part of the cycle. The plant takes in the Carbon Dioxide and produces Oxygen which gives us air to breath. So the cycle repeats again, we breath the air and breath out Carbon Dioxide so the plants take it in and produce air again. The plant uses the Carbon Dioxide to make its self healthy, so the plant looks healthy. The plants take in the nitrogen and use it to produce proteins and nucleic acids. This provides food for the plant making it stay alive.

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The plants look a bit under watered but they will recover in a few days if they get enough. The plants are about 3 inches tall and getting bigger. There signs that insects have been eating the plants most likely caterpillars larvas and butterflies. Other than that the plants are doing great.

Blog Post 3

The plant have grown since the las time we observed them. The plants look dry and seem to lack the sufficient amount of water needed. Insects most likely caterpillars have been feeding of the plants. The plant uses water to grow. The water contributed to how it looks now. The plants make the carbon that cannot be used useful again , but are only useful to itself. The carbon, like water contributed to its growth. the plants are active with the nitrogen cycle by making it useful for us. the plants to benefit from the carbon after it is useful again. so that is what made it grow.

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  Some of the abiotic factors in which the plant depends on is water. Water in the key source of life, without water there is not life, plants take in water to the roots or leaves and feed of this. Sunlight is also another abiotic factor that plants depend on, sunlight allows photosynthesis to occur with the plant, plants grow from the sunlight. One other nonliving factor that plants depend on is the soil, obviously without soil plants cannot grow, it is the home of plants. The biotic factors that plants depend on include worms, although these creatures are often seen as useless they are the ones that provide soil for the plants to live in, they create the homes for the plants naturally. The worms dampen the soil and make it better suitable for plants to live in.

   You tell that the plants are engaged with competition with each other, they can compete for space and water, and sometimes sunlight if another plant is covering its source of light. I can tell because some plants are larger and growing at a more rapid rate than others.

  I see two obvious observations that tell you which plant is winning in competition, by its size, and how green it is. The winner is larger and greener while the looser is smaller because photosynthesis has not occurred as rapid because of the lack of sunlight or water, the looser will also be not as green and more of a yellow complexion or dark green depending on the plant. It can be difficult to determine who has won or lost the competition because of the slight difference in color, size, and amount of soil. One way you can determine it is using measuring instruments that can calculate size or even color.

 An other form of interaction is parasitism this can be observed when the plants of holes throughout their leaves, this is due because of the caterpillars feeding on the plants for food. One other interaction is mutualism between both the plant and worms, the worms create a better environment with the soil and the plant creates a home or shade for the worm.

 There is more of a secondary succession occurring because the plants are growing rapidly, the environment has gone from only soil to completely full of plant life.

Tyler's Bio

Hi my name is tyler, i have lived in california sanjose. I have a garden and we grow watermelon, grapes tomatoes, various herbs, and peppers. I water and take care of the plants in my family's garden.

Blog Assignment 5

Our plant is definatey alive considering how much i has grown in the last two weeks. and the comparison of five weeks ago of when they were about an inch or so to now at about 3 inches. there is no direct evidence that they are eating but they are growing. and just by that we can see that they are alive and eating.

blog assignment 4

an abiotic factor that would affect the life of my plant would be the soil and water. some biotic factors would be insects, and other plants that provide oxygen and nitrogen. the soil affects the plant by absorbing the water for the plants. and the insects by what they transfer on to the plants, and what they take from the plants. the plants must be involved in competition from there being so many in one space. the plants compete with eachother for food and water. The plants aren't much of the losers because they make chemicals that they defend themselves with. For Instance, A catrerpillar feeds of a plant. that plant might create a poison chemical that could kill the caterpillar. The Plants are also involved in another interaction that is called parasitism. where one organism eats off another and is harmed. It seems more like secondary succession because other plants have been planted there so that environment knows the procedure of how to grow plants because it has experienced it already.

Blog Assignment 3

The plant got bigger in the last week. It looked dry. There was appearance of insects feeding off it. The plat uses water to grow. The water contributed to how it looks now. The plats make the carbon that cannot be used useful again. the carbon like water contributed to its growth. the plants are active with the nitrogen cycle by making it useful for us. the plants to benefit from the carbon after it is useful again. so that is what made it grow.

My name is Mateo Castro I am from san jose california. I go to Willow Glen High School. I am a big music fan and mostly i listen to country music. My first language is English and my second language is spanish. In sixth grade i took a lunch time class called gardening club, where i learned how to plant seeds and dig up dirt to me it was a fun experience.  Someone i know that knows about gardening is my aunt she has a big garden plus live plants in her yard. she waters them daily and feeds them to. A person that cooks things from scratch is my mom, she makes homemade pastries and homemade sauces for food, and she learned from my grandma how to do that.

My name is Alan Arreola. I am from California, and have always been living here.


I have only gardened once for science, I planted tomatoes at a small farm. I don't usually grow my food, but I have occasionally got some fruits from a tree. Growing crops is actually difficult when you have little experience because it requires patience and knowledge.
My uncle knows how to grow many crops and usually plants his own fruits and vegetables, he either sales them are just eats them. I hope after all this I can learn more about agriculture.

Owen's Bio

My name is Owen Luis. I have always lived in San Jose, CA. I have never gardened anything or grown anything. Both my parents own a land in Mexico and they grow a lot of food. I am not completely sure what the plants are though. My dad use to grow some crops and he sometimes talks to me about it. That's it.