Blog Assignment Post #7

          The plant we are experimenting with is one of the Brassica Oleracea species, Broccoli Romanesco. Broccoli romanesco is a light green, crunchy vegetable with tons of spiral buds circling to the top. It is similar to the vegetable, broccoflower, which is a cross between broccoli and cauliflower. Its rough texture, is similar to cauliflower, as well as its shape. Its color is a cross between cauliflower and broccoli. It tastes of a cross between a cauliflower and broccoli. Based on those facts, it can be concluded that it descended from a cauliflower and a broccoli. The offspring will have a dominant color because both the "mother" and "father" have a light green color. Based on the size and texture of the traits of "mother" and "father", the offspring could be recessive in small size, big size, hard texture or softer texture. The Broccoli Romanesco will pass its genetic information to its offspring by giving it half of its chromosomes to the offspring while the other parent contributes half of its chromosomes. The offspring will not look exactly like its parent because it developed a DNA based on the new set of chromosomes it acquired. New forms of vegetable from the species Brassica Oleracea came to be because of cross pollination. Though the new offspring from the cross pollination still has the genes of the Brassica Oleracea, it also accumulated new genes of the other species.