Blog Post #8 A Matter of Selection Steven Trujillo
1. The leaves on the Brassica oleracea seem to exhibit the most diversity out of all the plants. From the measurements I have gathered I can clearly see a huge difference in all the related plants. The Cauliflower we were growing's largest leaf on it was 1 inch compared to kale which has a leaf with 6 Inch length and cabbage has a 5 inch leaf with 3 inch width. One of the biggest variations is size of plants some grow very tall and some stay close the the ground and get more width. This can be seen in a comparison between cabbage and kale. The Cabbage can be seen being 9 inches in height compared to the Kale that has 32 inches in height. This is significant because for plants are related and can reproduce, also have 23 inch difference, which is a large variation between one and another.
2. All the variety we see in the plants we are growing is due to multiple things that changed the common ancestress over time to all the different type we have. Traits are passed down, but over time traits are sometimes lost or new ones are gained this could happen through selective breeding, which leads to a large variety of a plant. Another way of modification of the plants is the genes are changed through a mutation this could occur multiple times and eventually over time create a new species of plant.
3. Although the leaves are a great variety of sizes, they all are some what similar. This part of the plants all seem to have about the same shape and they are all green leafs. While size may range they all do carry out the same process.
4. To change is a lot they would need to probably genetically modify it or they could attempt to breed it with other species. One of the best ways to change it would be to force it to evolve, for example throw it in new environment, lets say one with less sunlight, now the plant will most likely be force to get bigger leafs to absorb as much possible sunlight in the new environment.
2. All the variety we see in the plants we are growing is due to multiple things that changed the common ancestress over time to all the different type we have. Traits are passed down, but over time traits are sometimes lost or new ones are gained this could happen through selective breeding, which leads to a large variety of a plant. Another way of modification of the plants is the genes are changed through a mutation this could occur multiple times and eventually over time create a new species of plant.
3. Although the leaves are a great variety of sizes, they all are some what similar. This part of the plants all seem to have about the same shape and they are all green leafs. While size may range they all do carry out the same process.
4. To change is a lot they would need to probably genetically modify it or they could attempt to breed it with other species. One of the best ways to change it would be to force it to evolve, for example throw it in new environment, lets say one with less sunlight, now the plant will most likely be force to get bigger leafs to absorb as much possible sunlight in the new environment.
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