Introduction In the mid 1800's Gregor Mendel generated experiments in his garden and came up with the basis of heredity in traits. He created new ideas known as Mendelians Law. One being the law of segregation , which concludes that there is a presence of dominant and recessive alleles that are passed from parents to their offspring. There is also the law of independent assortment, which concludes that traits were shared autonomously from parents to their offspring. The law of independent assortment involves investigating sex cells so we would not use the law of independent assortment because it is not very likely for peas to have sex chromosomes. During the fast plant experiment we observed artificial selection of three plant generations. We call this artificial selection because we are using selective breeding to develop particular phenotypic traits. The purpose of this lab is to observe the phenotypic changes from one generation to the next ( Law of Segregation). In fast plants there are the presence of trichomes. Trichomes are small outgrowths that function in plant defense (2). The more trichomes ,the better the" fitness "of the plants. (1) Fitness refers to the plants ability to pass genes to future generations. This is related to evolution, which changes the genotype …show more content…
For all the section in total here were about 5,995 seeds that were not germinated and the question is, why? We can see a pattern that only about 60- 70% of the seeds were actually germinated, so what affects germination. Germination can be affected by temperature, moisture/water, and soil use. If the temperature is extremely high or low then that is not ideal for the fast plants. When it comes to the soil use and fertilizer, due to the absence of the first lab, I am not sure if the previous TA measured a specific amount of fertilizer nor a specific soil for this