Journal Entry 1 - Ania Merabia

I analyzed the phylogenetic tree of the curled/curly dock plant. The genus is rumex and the species is crispus. The family of the curly dock plant is the polygonaceae family, the order is caryophyllales and the kingdom is plantae. Lastly, plants are descended from eukaryotes.

The curly dock plant is a green, land, vascular, seed, and flowering plant.

All of the observed species in my group project share the adaptation of being vascular plants. They all have "vessels" or tubelike tissues that transport materials (water, glucose, general nutrients) throughout the plant. An example of nonvascular plants is moss, none of the plants we observed is moss.

One of the plants I observed is the greater burdock plant. They have a unique adaptation that none of the other plants observed have and that is phyllaries with hooked tips. This clever adaptation allows the seed to attach to animals and other organisms that pass by and disperses it to a new location when they're removed by the organism or simply fall or ar rubbed off. The reason the this trait was selected is because if all of the plants grew close to each other they'd be competing for too few resources to support all of the plants and they'd all die, by growing further apart they're ensuring resources will be more or less evenly dispersed

Publicado el 22 de septiembre de 2021 por ania33