Daucus Carta Experiment Essay

Introduction

The experiment was done on Queen Annes lace. According to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (plants.usd.gov), the botanical name of the plant is Daucus Carota. The plant is in the family Apiaccaec, and in the Dicot taxonomy group.

As stated in Health-From-Nature (Health-From-Nature.net 2011 All Rights Reserved. Author: Health from Nature Team) The D. carota is native to open spaces such as fields and empty lots of the Northern Hemisphere. It is a tap-rooted biennial plant, and has diferent stems emerging from the central taproot. The flowers on the stems are usually 8 to 9 centimeters long. many small flowers are born on the top of each stem emerging from the central stem. The flower heads are white or a light pink color, and are open in the daytime but closed at night. Each stem consist of many smaller stems with a smaller on the end . They mature into white, flower heads. Those flower heads consist of numerous, prickly seeds. These seeds will blow away in the wind or attach to animals and pollinate and reproduce.

The reason for the experiment was to see about the germination of D. carota seeds depending on soil conditions, such as having one petri dish in the light and one petri dish in the light, and to see which petri dish would have better germination.

Materials and Methods

For the experiment there were two petri dishes. One petri dish was in the light, the other petri dish was in the dark. There were fifty D. carota seeds placed on a foam pad in each petri dish. The petri dish in the dark and light were both watered regulary to keep the foam pad moist. The plants were checked about everyday possible and watered regularly every 1 to 3 days. There were some longer periods of time that the plants were not watered due to breaks or time off from school. The petri dishes were kept in either the light or dark and kept at regular room