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    Take A Leaf From Our Book

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    The two article I chose to review from Science and Children are “Take a Leaf from Our Book” by Betty Fowler and “The Poetry of Plant” by Emily Morgan and Karen Ansberry. Both articles demonstrated how to incorporate literature, poetry, and science in order to teach students about plants through hands-on activities. A piece of literature can be significant tool for teaching and learning about science. However, it takes more than just reading about a topic to be considered “doing science”.…

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    Description of plant: chamomile is an annual plant with a branched stem, 20-50 cm high. The leaves are doubly spliced split with narrow and thread-like leaves. Flower stalks is grooved and hollow at the top. Flower is conical shape and hollow inside. Flower heads carry peripheral white flowers that at night or in rainy weather or after fertilization, bow down, while the tubular flowers are yellow color. Smell and taste: the smell of chamomile is a distinctive, spicy, balsamic and ethereal, what…

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    Jasmine Plant Essay

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    Jasmine is currently being cultivated in Spain, France, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and other countries of the world. Widely cultivated for its flowers, jasmine is enjoyed in the garden, as a house plant, and as cut flowers. In foods, jasmine is used to flavor beverages, frozen dairy desserts, candy, baked goods, gelatins, and puddings. Syrup of Jasmine is made by placing in a jar alternate layers of the flowers and sugar, covering the whole with wet…

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    Oil Seed Crops Case Study

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    4. Discussion 4.1. Comparative analysis of oil seed crop The comparative analysis from the LCA of sunflower, soybean, and canola per impact category are shown in Table 2. According to the results reported in the table 2, soybean was the oil seed with the the best environmental profile regardless the impact category. In contrast, sunflower was the oil seed crop with worst environmental results in almost all the categories. Environmental results were same pattern for the three crops, but…

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    Peanut Case Study

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    Peanut, (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an herbaceous annual plant of the family Fabaceae grown for its oil and edible nuts. Peanut plants are small, usually erect, thin stemmed with feather-like leaves. The leaves are arranged in alternate pairs with leaf-like attachments near the stalk. The peanut plant produces yellow, orange, cream or white flowers which produce 'pegs', characteristic floral structures which sink into the ground to grow the pod. The pods could be reaching up to 10 cm (4 in) in…

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    Crepe Myrtle – Lagerstroemia The crepe myrtle is a small tree that can also be shaped to remain a shrub. They are characteristic of the south, as they have a high tolerance to drought and the intense heat of the southern summers. From the genus Lagerstroemia, there are dozens of species, each characterized by a different color of bloom. To develop a large singular trunk, the basal suckers should be removed during the early years of growth. The trunk of the crepe myrtle is as much a part of…

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    Brassica Rapa Plants

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    about a total of 13 weeks for the Brassica Rapa Plants to complete their full life cycle (Figure 4). To begin, F1 Wisconsin Brassica Rapa fast plant hybrid generation seeds made from a cross between a homozygous purple pigmented plant and a homozygous green pigmented plant are planted in soil. This process required obtaining a six-celled tray filled with 75% soil. Within that soil contained one MiraceGro All Purpose Plant Food fertilizer. The Fast Plant seeds…

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    Sumatran orangutans are primarily frugivores, favoring when it is available fruit that is soft and has pulp, and feeding on figs when it is not. Insects, plants, vegetables and bark also contribute to Sumatran orangutan diet, however these contributions are much less significant than that of the fruit. The figs they consume do not fruit on a seasonal basis, meaning they are generally available at any given time of the year (WICH). Unlike figs, the fruiting of soft pulpy fruits does occur on a…

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    Boneseid Research Paper

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    Zealand, Australia) to control the population of the boneseed plant (Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp.monilifera). The bonseed plant is a destructive plant that overtakes and damages native plants. The plant is thick with daisy like yellow flowers, leathery leaves and black clustered fruit. This plant produces large amounts off seeds that quickly over take the surrounding resources before other plants 4. Following a program noted in Plant Protection Quarterly, the article A review of the…

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    Arabidopsis Term Paper

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    The Arabidopsis thaliana, world’s most widely known and used plant model organism today, yet what Characteristics caught scientists attention and why was this small flowering plant chosen. Also under what circumstance had it preserved through that allowed it to be crowned the title model organism. Arabidopsis first interested scientists as a self-pollinating plant that would completes its life cycle within 6 weeks, alongside the characteristic of the smaller genome size (1.2 × 108 bp) than…

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