Plant Experiment
- Does crowding the seed affect germination?
- Do seeds germinate under different colors (wavelengths) of light?
- What effect would various concentrations of solutions have on germination?
- What happens when an apical meristem is removed? Does the effect vary depending on the point in the plant’s life cycle?
- What environmental conditions might specifically affect emergence?
- How might soil type affect emergence?
- Does the plant from a deeply sown seed emerge later? Does it flower later?
- Does the number of hairs on the leaf margin correlate with the number of hairs on the whole plant?
- Can you set up an experiment that alters the gravitational field for a plant?
- Does a period of high humidity affect pollen viability?
- What happens to the sepals and petals on an unpollinated flower? What happens to the pistil?
- Think up your own experiment and have it approved!
Requirements:
- A typed paper
- Minimum 5 pages in length
- Font no bigger than 12
- Margins no bigger than 1 inch on each side
- Sections:
- Abstract
- Brief summary of experiment and findings (about 5 sent.)
- Introduction
- Introduction to your hypothesis
- Prior research
- Any plant information we would need to know
- Materials
- Any and all materials in paragraph form (not a list)
- Procedure
- Full procedure
- Easily reproducible
- Results
- Pictures
- Graphs (if necessary)
- Data Tables
- Numbers
- Summary
- Results analyzed
- Compare to hypothesis
Presentation (At least 5 minutes)
With visuals (Actual plants will be great)
Pictures
Explanation of project
- Due on or no later than June 11