Rapid plant movement

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…

in water at standard temperature and pressure (NOAA). Nitrates are widely used in very large quantities as fertilizers in agriculture because of their readiness to decompose and release nitrogen for plant growth and because of their ready solubility ensuring that nitrate ions can be absorbed by plant root hairs. (NOAA). Nitrate compounds have a wide range of uses which rely on their activity as oxidizing agents, the presence of freely available nitrogen, or their high solubility (NOAA).…

These plants only receive sunflecks, but it is believed that these provide up to 60% of the daily carbon gain by seedlings like Euphorbia forbesii and Claoxylon sandwicense. For photosynthesis to be at its optimum there should be on average of 16 hours of…

There are other elements within the text which suggest that the days in view are something other than simple days of standard length. The text suggests that the various creatures (plant and animal) came forth in a natural way at God’s instigation. Hence phrases like “Let the earth sprout vegetation” and “Let the earth bring forth,” as well as the emphasis on the ability of all life to reproduce via natural processes (e.g., “trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind”)…

additional eight inches of rain fell but in a very short period of time. This amount of rain within such a short period of time resulted in a flood of unprecedented proportions for the South Carolina Botanical Garden. The devastation that occurred to the plants, animals, and grounds was of unfathomable proportions. The implausible amount of rain overwhelmed the Duck Pond and caused the water to breach the dam. The newly installed Natural Heritage Garden Trail received the brunt of the raging…

iii) Light intensity, cm-2 Formula of light intensity = (1/distance2) = cm-2 Eg : for 10cm = 1/((10.00cm)²) = 1/(100 cm²) =0.0100 cm-2 Distance of leaf discs from the light source (±0.05) cm Light intensity (cm-2) 10.00 0.0100 15.00 0.0044 20.00 0.0025 25.00 0.0016 30.00 0.0011 35.00 0.0008 Table 6: The table shows the…

Research has shown that urine helps plants best when diluted with purified water; this is likely due to the fact that urine contains chemicals that would halt (or at the very least, slow down considerably) important processes within the plant. Such processes include, but are certainly not limited to, transpiration and photosynthesis, inarguably the two most vital activities performed within the plant. Transpiration occurs when plants lose water vapor through the guard cells and stomata;…