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In the novel, The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan tells the intriguing story of how plants are domesticated from the perspective of the plant with regards to four specific plants.. The four plants he chose for discussion are the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. As he discusses the domestication of these plants, his overall focus is the desire that each of these plants have to us as humans. Pollan has written books and magazine articles among other pieces of literature that discuss the relationship between plants and humans. Throughout this informational text, Pollan tries to keep the perspective from the “plant’s-eye view of the world,” but he often slips into Pollan’s eye view of the world. As he talks about experiences that he has had with each of these plants and gives a little bit of their history, it was often hard to stay focused on the topic that he was trying to convey. However, I found that the perspectives that Pollan brings up are interesting to think about. The Botany of Desire was an interesting journal type informational novel that didn’t quite live up to my expectations of what it could have been.

Plants are found everywhere on earth, up high on the ridge and down low in caves and caverns. The types of plants that live in these places depends on many factors. These factors are separated into two different categories, the biotic factors and the abiotic factors. Some of the biotic factors include, predation, competition, and habitat destruction. Plants with limited competition and large amounts of resources will be in a higher abundance than plants with limited resources and higher competition rates will be confined to areas and either out competed or will be the dominant species. Certain plants adapt to these factors and thrive and others don’t do as well. Some of the abiotic factors include, sunlight, water, temperature, and wind. These

Classify plants and animals according to the physical characteristics that they share. Identify the structures in plants (leaves, roots, flowers, stem, bark, wood) that are responsible for food production, support, water transport, reproduction, growth, and protection.

Symbiotic Mutualisms: Plant provide energy and protection to the fungus while the fungus helps the plant absorb nutrients from the soil.

Plants capture light energy and transform it into chemical energy. This chemical energy is transferred from plants to animals via the food chains.

One widely accepted idea is that of the five senses and we know plants possess some of these senses.“When we smell something, we sense a volatile chemical that’s dissolved in the air, and then react in someway to this smell...When one fruit starts to ripen, it releases this hormone which is called ethylene, which is sensed by neighboring fruits, until entire trees and groves ripen more or less in synchrony”(Garet Cook, Do plants think). Plants can have a sense of smell and can react to it and if having perception means being animate plants must be

Hi, I’m Andie Galante and I will be responding to the STEM Scholar of Promise writing prompt, “Describe a STEM-related question you have or a topic you would like to explore. Why is it interesting or meaningful to you?”. I have recently become deeply interested in outer space and our environment, so my question is, “Can plants be grown in space?” or more specifically, “Can a tree be grown on the moon?”.

Modifying plants is not a new concept. "For centuries, gardeners and farmers have been crossbreeding different species of

Some plants were changed so they could be safely consumed and some changed by themselves so yes

Of course, not easy to do that because each plant has specific situation to grow up and that what Kingsolver want to see. The author not only focus in this part but also discussed other issues belong with rising plants and animals like problems that face normal farmers, organic food, and health impacts of agriculture industry in the USA. She talks about that in twenty chapters and each chapter tells story that she had in this journey about this one of these issues and discussing that and come up with

Firstly, Plant roots break up rocks into smaller chunks. One example of this is on the Canadian Shield, where trees break up rocks as they grow. On the Canadian Shield, trees are growing on rocks, and since they have nowhere to go but into the rock, they end up breaking the parent rock up as they grow. Secondly, plant roots hold soil in place to prevent it from eroding. Along most shorelines in lakes and rivers, plants hold the shoreline together. In urban areas where there are not any plants, people either have to put mesh to hold the grass together, or just replace it with concrete. Plants are important to keeping the soil together. In places without plants along the coastline, the soil erodes away because of the water. Lastly, plants decompose into humus at the end of their lifetime, which fertilizes the soil. An example of this is in the west coast climate region, there are a lot of plants. They grow everywhere and they grow quickly because of the fertile soil, the large amounts of rain, and the mild temperatures. The plants grow, and then after they die, they turn into humus, and fertilize the soil. Then, the cycle starts again. This fast cycle makes the soil very fertile. Vegetation is very important in fertilizing and maintaining the

Ecology has been the study of different interactions amongst organisms with the abiotic environment (Pimm and Smith, 2007), examining how ecosystems have thrived upon these relations. Ecosystems have depended on the continued availability of energy supplied ultimately by plants through the process of photosynthesis. Plants have lived in association with each other from having occupied the same niche in nature (Khan and Hussain, 1999). Numerous plants have

feeding on them [… we can] genetically alter the plants so that they are more resistant

     Plants are autotrophs that mean they are able to synthesize food directly from inorganic compounds, instead of relying on other organisms. They use carbon dioxide gas and water to produce sugars and oxygen

Humans depend on plants in numerous ways. One reason we depend on plants is for consumption. Plants have the unique ability of producing their own food through a process called photosynthesis. In this process, plants are able to produce macromolecules such as carbohydrates that cannot be produced in animals or humans. In humans, the only to gain these macromolecules is to consume plant matter, or consume plant-eating animals (herbivores).