Botany

It is well known that the temperature that a plant is grown in greatly affects the manner in which that plant grows. If the conditions are too extreme for a plant, then that plant cannot be as productive as other members of its species grown at less extreme temperatures. Such is the case of the pepper or tomato plant; if temperatures are too high for these plants, then the pollen these plants produce becomes inviable and these plants cannot successfully reproduce (Environmental Factors That……

The PBS documentary film, “The Botany of Desire” were based on the book by Michael Pollan, it was design to enhance viewers to have better connection between plants and the world. The movie discuss the relationship of four plants and associated with human desires for sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control over plants ; showing that humans do not stand outside the food web but are much a part of it. The four plants were the apple, tulip, marijuana, and the potato. Each association with…

In The Botany of Desire; A Plant’s Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan explores the co-evolutionary relationship between humans and plants. In four chapters, he discusses the four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—through the plants that satisfy these desires: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. More specifically, in the Potato chapter, Pollan discusses the associated human desire for control that links us with the potato. Pollan interjects a…

In the book, The Botany of Desire, the author Michael Pollan describes the relationship between human and potatoes. After discussing the history of potatoes and the famine in Ireland, he relatively focused on the genetic engineering of the potatoes. The famous seed industry, Monsanto, have change the genes of potatoes by adding some genes of Bacillus Turingiensis(Bt) into the potato to make anti-biotic potatoes. One interesting thing is that Monsanto has the patent of new plants, and if farmers…

Before the first fleet Australia was a place where indigenous people called home. They would hunt and gather with no care, that was until the first fleet arrived in Botany Bay. When the first fleet of convicts arrived they took over all the indigenous people's land to make farms and to build towns. Life was difficult for some people but for others they did very well. After the first fleet of convicts came, people chose to come because they wanted to, they were called free settlers, then followed…

does it come from? What exactly is in it? Is it safe to eat? Sometimes the best answer to those questions is no answer at all. Some of us may not even care, some will. It’s all about the perspective of the person. No answer is wrong. In the book The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan writes about a potato called the NewLeaf. The NewLeaf potato isn’t like any other kind of ordinary potato. It’s a genetically engineered potato that we humans have created ourselves. We defied and ignored part of…

A few of the reasons why I changed my opinion on monocultures was the Botany of Desire documentary and its look at apples and the articles on the recent outbreak of Panama disease in bananas. These resources really ended up changing my mind on how I view food in my everyday life. A common fruit I find almost everyday is the apple. In the documentary Botany of Desire, author Michael Pollan talks about the evolution of the apple in America. He outlines its growth…

At its core, The Botany of Desire is a story of that encompasses the entirety of human’s cultural interaction with plants and agriculture. Throughout his writing and especially early on, Pollan often uses the word ‘coevolution’ in response to the human interaction with certain staple plants that have a long detailed history with humans. This ‘coevolution’ idea roughly refers to the idea that the evolution of human culture is deeply tied the evolution of our interactions with plants, and at a…

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No one has influenced our knowledge of life on Earth as much as the English naturalist Charles Darwin 1809-1882. His theory of evolution by natural selection, now the unifying theory of the life sciences, explained where all of the astonishingly diverse kinds of living things came from and how they became exquisitely adapted to their particular environments. His theory reconciled a host of diverse kinds of evidence such as the progressive fossil record, geographical distribution of species,…