The Wonders of Biodiversity. Markham

             Currently our group as been working and nurturing with collard greens. They are an edible plant used in many dishes. It has thin pinkish veins expanding from the stem. I believe the parents look very related to there offspring, our plant. Since parents pass down their traits, they should be somewhat the same. To predict what our plant would have looked like before it grew, we would have had to use the Punnet square. To actually use the square we would have to extensively research the traits of collard greens and chart the genes the parent plants have. It would be a long process to fully be able to predict what the plant might have looked like.  Even though all of our plants are related they all look different. The millions of combination of genes and traits create diversity in the class garden.

Our Collard Plants

Brassica Oleracia 
Carrying green long leave traits.