Blog Post #7 (Ayla)

Wonders of Biodiversity

     Our experimental plant were collard greens and it is part of the Brassica Oleracea family.  It's hard to determine what our plants offspring will look like considering the fact that we have no previous gardening knowledge of this species of plant and we do not know what the plants' parents looked like.  If we ran experiments, we could determine the dominant and recessive genes and ultimately, the phenotype of the offspring.  Our plants' offspring won't look exactly like it because through meiosis it only obtains half of one parents genetic information.  I'm not sure how all the varieties of the brassica oleracea family grew so far apart from each other in appearance.  It might be through years and years of mutations and endured millions of years of eveolution.