Plant morphology

provides visitors with a substantial amount of plant life. The garden contains plants from all over the world and from different environments. The presentation of this wild life gives visitors a sense of nature around the world but in deeper inspection one can see how unnatural this arrangement can be. While visiting a place like botanical gardens, one mostly is conscious of the natural processes of plants and wildlife, it is almost as one is at a zoo for plants. However, most people fail to…

Plants that were not of the target species were recorded as “other”. Using the line-intercept method our target species were the Yaupon Holley, and Farkelberry shrubs. When we used the quadrat method our target species were the Little Bluestem, Sedge, and Chasmanthium. Lastly, when we used the point-center-quarter method, our target species were the Post Oak, Water Oak, Sycamore, and Honey Locus. White-Tailed Deer Sampling. In addition to plants, we also collected data on…

The Loggers should be allowed to continue to cut trees down in the rainforest. The three reasons on why they should continue are that: logging has the ability to benefit the environment, clear-cutting also has the ability to be good for the environment, logging provides useful materials for both building and fuel. Loggers do have the ability to choose how many trees they cut down. Loggers can also choose the amount of clear-cutting they do. Loggers also Firstly, Logging does benefit the…

Extinct animals like the Tasmania Tiger was extinct because of us. The Tasmanian Tiger was hunted to extinction because farmers back in the day. And because of his huge yawning mouth. Today I will be talking about what animals went extinct and how. Then I will talk about what is extinction. Then I will talk about what extinction does to the ecosystem. Even predators like killer whales and great white sharks are going to extinction. The reason why predators like killer whales are going extinct…

The Earth is considered a biosphere because other life that it sustains. However, what characteristics makes a biome and how do those characteristics shape what a biome is? Researcher claim things like climate and landforms make up areas like biomes. Through research and studies, one can accumulate ideas as to how earth’s characteristics make up its biomes. There are many different types of biomes but three are seven main types that can be split up into sub biomes. Two biomes, like the…

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…

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 certain point Pollan refers to one of Charles…

Oxford dictionary defines ‘’Root’’ as family, ethnic, or cultural origins, and the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support. It is taught that when roots go deeper what is on the ground gets richer. Roots which mean origins symbolize history of a culture, literature, customs, and traditions of a society. The most convenient example of planting seeds and watching the process of roots is how American society created their own way of living. American society’s history goes…

Abstract Photosynthesis, in essence, gives life to plants and plants give life to, us, humans. However, have you ever wondered how the first plant came to be? Through the process of an unlikely symbiotic union of an alga cell, a cyanobacterium, and a bacterial parasite and unfavorable environments, the first plant was born. Although scientists do not know why such a union occurred, they believe it might have to do with the theory of adaptation to one’s environment. Adaptation tends to occur when…

Patrick O’Donnell Science B2 Question: How does the presence of light affect the production and consumption of carbon dioxide in plants? The initial energy that lights gives to the chloroplasts ultimately affect the amount of carbon dioxide that is consumed and produced. To start the light dependent stage of photosynthesis, sunlight is needed for the initial energy in which the chlorophyll in the chloroplast harnesses. Water is taken in by the xylem tissues in the roots. The water molecules…