Through this experiment, we wanted to find out whether different amounts of water would affect the gradual growth of a plant over a long period of time, and this plant maintains homeostasis through this process. My hypothesis was that I believe that the plants would eventually die if it given too much or too less water, and in order to survive, it must have an amount of water that is not in extremes (too much or too less) to regulate homeostasis. As we conducted our experiment, we noticed that the plants that were given 5 mL, 10 mL, and 15 mL (the lesser/ more moderate amounts of water) had grown the most as well as the quickest over 10 days in comparison to the plants watered with the larger amounts of water ( 20 mL, 25 mL, 30 mL etc.) As …show more content…
Because plants go through the process of photosynthesis to mainly produce energy using sunlight, they use something known as the stomata that regulates the amount of carbon dioxide and sunlight is taken into the plant, and how much oxygen is let out. These stomata, when open, can cause the plant to let out a portion of water through evaporation, also known as transpiration. Surrounding these stomata, there are guard cells that control this opening and closing, when open transpiration can increase greatly but when it is closed it is decreased.This can be seen as the feedback mechanism due to its change to maintain homeostasis. Additionally, because pea plants generally thrive better in cool moist areas, they have a greater cuticle thickness, the waxy film that covers the surface of the leaf (USDA,2016). The greater this cuticle thickness, the slower the transpiration rate due to its hydrophobic (water repelling) surface (USDA,2016) and the higher the temperature, the faster the transpiration rate. This can be seen in our experiment as we give more and more water to the pea plant. Because the transpiration rate is much slower due to coolness and cuticle thickness, the plants watered with greater amounts of water (20 mL and above) take