-Leah Poapst
Our group was experimenting with a cauliflower, which has died. The
cauliflower is a vegetable that reproduces by seed. Our cauliflower was white
(most common color), although cauliflower can vary in different colors such as
orange, green, purple and white. My teams cauliflower came from a package of
multiple seeds, therefore we can only predict what it would look like from the
photo. Our plant would have inherited a large, fluffy, and white center like
its parent plant. The cauliflower would acquire some of these traits (if it had
survived) by meiosis, in which the result of the two divisions of a diploid
cell would be four haploid cells. This means that the next generation of the
plant would have half the genetic material of the original cell. We cannot
predict the traits of the offspring but we can imagine a similar look, due its
dominant traits.
The varieties of Brassica oleracea was probably changed during the process of meiosis, due to crossing-over. Although my classmates plants look different they may still have some similarites.
The varieties of Brassica oleracea was probably changed during the process of meiosis, due to crossing-over. Although my classmates plants look different they may still have some similarites.
