Student Blog Post Assignment #5

Jacob Sweet
10/20/14
Period 5

Student Blog Post #5: Are the Plants in the Garden Living or Not?

     This week, our plants are still healthy and alive. Their leaves have broadened significantly and are bending outwards from the plant. Because bugs that eat our plants live close by, they have many holes and bite marks in their leaves. However, the color of nearly everything on the plant has become much darker. The plants that are living close to each other (plants A and B) seem to be much healthier in terms of size, color, and amount of damage done to them than the plant that is living alone (plant C).
     The plants in the garden can be classified as a living thing because they have all of the characteristics of living things. This is most evident since the plant has changed in appearance. For example, they have grown in size significantly and are a bit darker. They also adapted to their new living area by spreading their roots out into the soil instead of keeping them bunched up in a cube like they did in their old plastic cups. To further prove that they are alive, we could take a leaf of the plant off and watch it react by seeing if it grows another leaf in the same area or starts growing slower. Finally, when the plant matures close to its final state, we can show that it can reproduce by taking its seeds and planting them to test if they can live too.