Friday, May 24, 2013

The wonders of biodiversity

The name of the plant we studied is Kohlrabi. Kohlrabi looks like brussels sprouts in shape but comes in green or purple and tastes like broccoli stems and is related to cabbage and cauliflower. Kohlrabi is from Germany and is form the cabbage and mustard family and can be eaten cooked or raw. The offspring will have a spherical shape and green or purple leaves. The offspring will look like both parents because they get an equal amount of chromosomes from each parent. There is many different types of brassica oleracea because maybe the original brassica oleracea might have breeded with a closely related plant and the cycle continued until new species were created.

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