Team Agreement

Amelia - I focused on gathering together background information and explaining the analysis of the data that we got from all microscopes.

Sam - I worked on creating the phylogenetic tree and comparing the sequences from the three plans that we chose

Jasmine - I looked into characteristics that all of the pictures of pollen had in order to compare them side by side and help in determining relations between them and also made the pollen data table

Da'Marea - I wrote out out whole procedure step by step making sure each step was very clear and also helped Sam in analyzing the information he found from making the phylogenetic tree.


As a group we formed a question, procured a hypothesis, and took pictures on all of the microscopes.

Analysis

Our hypothesis came up to be wrong. The Rose gigantea and the Larix Decidua Compacta(Larch) have the same number of apertures and come from the same type of pollen, although our hypothesis said they would not be alike. We thought that if the surface textures was the same then they would be more common but we were incorrect. The Rose gigantea is the plant that we trust because it contains contractile proteins, the same thing as strong skeletal and cardiac muscle.

Analysis of Data

Our hypothesis was not correct. We had hypothesized that the two wind-pollinated plants would be the most closely related plants but after taking pictures on many microscopes and studying the ancestors of all three plants, it turned out the angiosperm insect pollinated rose and the gymnosperm wind pollinated larch were the most closely related, opposed to the larch and the millet, which were both wind-pollinated like we had predicted. The larch and the rose had a common ancestor that the millet was not connected to, making it seem that at least in terms of these three plants, the way in which they are pollinated does not affect how closely related they are.