Blog post #8

1. While many different parts of the plant had their own variations, the leaves and the stem of the brassica oleracea looked to have the greatest amount of diversity throughout the different plants. While the plants varied in size, the plants are in different stages of their development. The plants I measured ranged from half of an inch up and just under 5 inches in width, and from just over 2 inches to 6 inches. The plants also varied in areas such as texture, color, and shape. Some of the different types of brassica had pointed, ridged, or even rounded edges to create a cool shape for each plant. Some plants were a deep green color, while others had light light green.

2.  There is many differences in the kinds of Brassica because of selective breeding. Artificial selection is where a person over several hundreds years chooses the natural variations from each plant and only lets those specific plants to breed. It makes it that each plant acquires over time represents descent with modification. This is good because mutations that are favored become most common genes in the gene pool. 

3.  The part of the Brassica Oleracea that seemed to have a common resemblance throughout the garden were the grass.  All of the grass had a green color, and were anywhere from 3 to 5 inches.

4.  If the people who wanted to modify the plants they would have to selectively breed the plants based on the flowers. After that the growers would have to reproduce brassica plants until they found a plant with different flowers. They then would breed the plant with more plants like it and pick the respective plant with even more change. Then they would repeat this process multiple times, and ultimately the flowers would end up looking very different from how they looked at the start.