User talk:Aminata M. Jamina/Notebook/Biology 210 at AU

February 13 'Experiment/Lab 3 Introduction: The purpose of this lab is to understand the evolution of plant specialization by examining vascularzation in a variety of plants observed in a transect. Some plants like Moses, lack a vascular system, resulting in limited growth (in length) from the ground/tree/or bark. With evolution, plants were able to become more specialized, hence the formation of a vascular system which allowed them to branch out in the environment, allowing them to grow further from the ground, longer, and is across a vast array of locations. Another large component of this weeks lab is the observation of plants and fungi under the microscope. For example, the stomata can be observed by dissecting a small portion of a plant leaf. Materials and Methods: 1. Collect five different plants from your transect and a variety of leaves, and place them into zip log bags to bring back with you. Be sure to put the leaves in one bag, and the plants in another 2. Observed a sample of your five plants under the microscope by making a wet mount. Be sure to to make notes of different structures. 3. Run through each station 1-7, and observe different types of plants and fungi. 4. From the PCR reaction you ran last week, take a sample and run a gel 5. Prepare your Berlese Funnel with your leaf collection Data:' refer to attached files conclusion:  Identify the seeds you brought back from the transect as either monocot or dicot. See if there is any evidence of flowers or spores (ferns). The seed from our plants show to be dicot. There aren't any evidence of spores on our plants specifically and that could be because they aren't flowering plants

 What are the Fungi sporangia and why are they important? Sporangia are small black structures that grow upward from hyphae on a fungus. They contain spores are released when the sporangia open up.

 Take a look at some of the samples with the dissecting microscope and decide if they are fungi and which of the three groups they belong too. Draw a picture of one and describe it in your notebook. Also explain why you think it is a fungus.