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| Explore | We all understand the process of photosynthesis and how detrimental it is for plants to have a substantial income of light. It has been taught to us since elementary school that plants need sun, or a certain lightsource to thrive. That is exactly the reason we came upon the question for our... |
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| Research Question | In the most general possible way, we were taught that plants were not eligible to grow in the dark. Well, our group decided to see the results of plants germinating in the dark. Through background research many articles were stating plants would have to be fully grown with some sense of sunlight.... |
| Predictions | It's predicted that plants with more sunlight will grow taller and faster than those with less or without. It's also predicted by the group that dicots will grow more and faster than monocots due to the facts that Dicots run off of two cotyledons, and monocots off of endosperm. Quantitatively,... |
| Experimental Design | 36 one gallon ziplock bags 6 pieces of standard 8’ 5’ cut graph paper 60 pearl millet seeds 60 rye seeds 60 soybean seeds Non ionized water Ruler A marker to label bags. LED red and blue spectrum Grow-light Three new cardboard boxes from Costco Cloth/t-shirt String Light Timer 36... |
| Conclusion | During the whole 14 days it seems as if the dark ones have grown better progress ethan the light and mid plantings. Through evidence the dark has germinated at 90% through the series of plants. The mid, only 85% of seeds has germinated. The light to summarize this germination occurrence only 50%... |
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Thank you so much for your time committing to this Project, You did a wonderful job helping and contributing to this project! Thanks again for your wonderful work.
Thank you! You really worked hard. I am very impressed by how you planned, performed, and reported your experiments. Best wishes to all of you. -- Dr. Hay
Thank you so much for helping us out with our team project, your comments were a lot of help to us!
Go Team Starchild! Excellent work PlantingScientists! I really enjoyed working with you. You really worked hard!
Nice report. Scientific writing is challenging. There are a lot or rules for content and format. Did you upload a preliminary draft here? Or is this pdf a final version?
It is the final. Do we have your approval?
I enjoyed reading your report of scientific data. Very nice job! My only suggestion is to work on the abstract some more. Abstracts are one of the most important sections of a report. They need to get the attention of the reader and summarize all parts of the paper.
Nice poster! Did you deliver your poster presentation to an audience?
We're finished!! Going to upload the document now with all of our information
Jordan, does anybody ever call you J-Hay.
How is everyone doing?
Good, we're all working on a poster presentation of the data and project, we'll send pics.
But we're all wondering about that nickname now.
Hello Everyone. This is Dr. Hay. It is good to hear about your poster preparation! How exciting! A good poster will tell a nice story and be useful as a visual aid for the presenter.
Are you giving me the nickname J-Hay?
yes.
We did, haha! I saw it and then saw the plants and was interested in it so I looked it up. It's so neat to see famous botanists being featured in things :)
Hi Everyone! Did you see the Plant Biology on the front page of Google? Check it out here.
What is the difference between rye dark day 1 and rye dark day 2? Are those separate experiments?
We started the experiments a day earlier with Day One seeds and the Day Two seeds were started the day after.
we can make a graph real quick
This is the follow-up graphs to our experiment regarding the weights of the dark plants versus light when they were dried out (to see if plants that started photosynthesis would weigh more with matter they produced)
Results were inconclusive, most likely due to the short length of our experiment. We predict that if the photosynthesizing plants had been given more time to grow, they would have weighed more.
I only saw a table of the dry weights. Did you have a graph? Are those average values in the table? If so, what is the sample size?
Thanks for sharing the dry weight data. Were you able to draw any conclusions? Did you see any differences between the environmental conditions?
Dr. Hay were you not able to view the PDF file that I recently shared?
My main suggestion for "SecondGraphingforstarchild.pdf" would be to show different light conditions in the same graph. That way we could see the differences.
Yes the link of the google docs are the same as the PDF file. I just had to download it as a different version for you to see.
I wasn't able to view the google document. I wonder if you can post in on our project page.
I like how you captured the growth dynamics. Nice work!
The uploaded PDF file are all the graphs of the total plants. The data is based on the averages of the hypocotyl and radicle.
Hello Team Starchild! This is Dr. Hay. I was looking at your data in the PDF file, trying to visualize it in the form of a graph (see the post below). What are your thoughts? It has been nice working with you. I am very impressed with your project info page! Great work PlantingScientists!