Blog Post #8

1. Which part (anatomy) or characteristic of the Brassica oleracea plants seems to exhibit the most variation (greatest number of different forms)? Which part or characteristic of the Brassica oleracea plants seems to show the greatest range of variation (biggest difference between one extreme and its opposite)? Use and include data collected from multiple measurements to support your answer.The leaves have the most expression of variation, they have different shape, size, and ratio between baby and grown leaves. The cabbage leaf in our flower bed had a 14:9 ratio. This ratio was found between three different plants, we measured two plants from each plant. The plants in the flower bed have different types of leaves, some had longer leaves with more inconsistent than the other plants, the brussels sprouts lead had a 3:1 ratio. The extremes for range show how the different plants have different sizes in the range of all of the brassica oleracea
2. Using the terms that follow, explain why you think there is so much variability in the domestic forms of Brassica oleracea: traits, selective breeding, artificial selection, genes, descent with modification, natural variations, mutations. There's a lot of variability between the Brassica Oleracea because of selective breeding. Which is the process of developing different phenotypic characteristics. Breeders of animals or plants made these differences based on what was most appealing, these plants were from the same family so the could create fertile offspring. Artificial selection chooses what type of plants are more prominent than others, as the breeders would only go for the most desirable traits. Mutations are a 
3. Which part (anatomy) of the Brassica oleracea plants seems to be most consistently the same in all of the examples in our garden, regardless of how extreme the differences between other parts of the same plants may be? Why do think this is so? Again, use and include data collected from multiple measurements to support your answer.
4. What would plant breeders have to do in order to get the body part or characteristic you described above (in your response to question #3) to become much different than it is presently?