Masons blog post # 7 "Land Race"

  My group and I are working with cabbage express red in the Brassica oleracea family. They are short in stature with green leafs and they have red stems.Their parent plants most likely had the same dominant traits, but one had a recessive gene that made one of our plants have a lighter complexion. To predict our plants future offspring I could find the same plants online and compare them with our plant to find the dominant traits of their species. To physical get these traits our plants would need to undergo meiosis. In meiosis to haploid cells containing half of the chromosomes needed for their species combine to form a parent cell. The parent cell then divides into four daughter cells. 

  Chromosomes in the original haploid cells contain the DNA from from the parents which is how our plants genes are passed Trough the generations,but depending on what traits our plants get we cant be for sure that how closely the offspring will look to its parents because of biodiversity. That brings me to why our type of plant looks so different from the rest of our classmates. If all of the plants were the same then it would be easy for a lone fungus to wipe out a whole species. That implies that our plants came foreman original plant that spread to different parts of the world, but had to adapt to the climates so it changed.

A landrace Brassica oleracea

Our plant