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The Insane War Tomatoes

A PowerPoint Presentation by Brant Sylvester, Scot Shirley, Janet Jimenez, and Lisa Lawrence

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The Research Question

For our brassica plants, we researched the plants’ height. Some of us breeded the two tallest, while others in our group tried other things with height. Our research led to our hypothesis.

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Our Hypothesis

• We hypothesized that if we bred the two tallest plants, a tall plant would be produced, unless if the plants were heterozygous and the children received the recessive genes.

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Background Information

Scientific name: Brassica Rapa

Common name: Field Mustard, Common Mustard, and Rape Mustard.

Kingdom: Plantae

Family: Brassicaceae

Class: Magnoliopsida

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Background Information cont.

• The average time that it takes for a Brassica Rapa plant to grow is approximately 35 days.

• Brassica Rapa is pollinated using a bee as its vector.

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Our Experimental Method/Design

• For our experimental method/design, we placed the Brassica seeds in containers using wicks and containers with water. The water would feed through the wicks and give water to the plants. We fertilized the plants once a week, every Friday. We placed these containers in light boxes in place of sunlight.

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The Factors influencing our Pollination Decision

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The Factors influencing our Pollination Decision cont.

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Our Embryogenesis Success Rate

On average, the brassica plant is supposed to produce 89 seeds per plant. Here are our actual results.

Lisa produced 14 seeds from her class, and her mutant plants produced 80 seeds.

Brant produced 12 seeds for mutant, and 51 seeds for his class brassica

Scot produced 51 seeds for his class brassica, and 49 seeds for his mutants

Janet produced 0 seeds for her class brassica, and 16 seeds for her mutants

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The Experimental Method We Used to Test Our Offspring

The method that we used to test our offspring was putting them in seed germination plates with wet paper towels to enhance their growth rates.

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Our ResultsBrassica Rapa

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Lisa mutant 1

Lisa mutant 2

Lisa Class 1

Lisa Class 2

Brant mutant 1

Brant mutant 2

Brant class 1

Brant class 2

Scot mutant 1

Scot mutant 2

Scot class 1

Scot class 2

Janet mutant 1

Janet mutant 2

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Our Conclusion

We conclude that this project was very informative and we learned a lot from it. We learned about plant’s genotypes and how genetic traits influence a plant’s physical characteristics. We hope that we helped the scientists with their research about plants in dry climates. As soon as our seeds grow in our seed germination plates, we will see if our research question was relevant.

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Pictures

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Pictures cont.

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Pictures cont.