#8: A matter of selection by Chase Lyles
For our last story of the seed blog post my group and I looked at all of the plants in the garden to see which part of the plants had the most variation. We concluded that the leaves had the most amount of variation. Our Brussel sprout leaves were very small compared to the cabbage leaves. Our leaves were short and round while the cabbage leavers were very large and round . All of the other plants also had very different shaped leaves because of there different size and/or shape. There are many reasons that there is variation between the different Brassica oleracea plants. One of the reasons is due to mutations that helped some of the plants survive in a certain conditions and/or of allele frequency that can change the appearance of the offspring from its parents. Out of all of the Brassica oleracea plants the part that is most consistent are the leaves. Each one of the leaves are co...
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