Hey hey everyone! Welcome back to our extraordinary fieldtrip! So we first talked about our trip to DTRI (Dairy Training and Research Institute). This is where we learned a lot about cows and how they live. Well, let's move on to the next stop, the Institute of Plant Breeding or IPB! In this place, of course, plants are bred. We were shown to many kinds of plants and crops such as the tomato, the sweet potato, corn, and we even got to see some fungi! Here is our tour guide:
Our tour guide holding beans
And here are some samples of the plants there:
They also taught us how to treat our plants properly like by constantly watering the plants and giving it good sunlight. After looking at plants, the tour guide brought us to a series of different kinds of flowers and with colorful colors! We even could buy a plant for a souvenir! But then, none of us had money.
Well let us give you a few organisms that we found interesting in the IPB. First, let us give you a picture of a fungi we saw:
And here are the organisms we got to find some info on:
1) Cassava
a. Common name: Sweet Potato
b. Scientific name: Manihot esculenta
c. Classification:
Kindom: Plantae
Division: Angiospermophyta
Class: Dicotylodones
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Manihot
Species: esculenta
- Characteristics: A shrubby, tropical, perennial plant which is resistant against insects due to its covering and it tastes sweet.
- Ecological relationship: The cassava plant is a producer in an ecosystem. It is the prey of the herbivores. The herbivores eat the cassava or sweet potato as nutrition so the eco-relationship of the cassava and the herbivore is predation.
AND HERE IS AN AMAZING PICTURE OF THIS PLANT!
The delicious cassava/sweet potato
Here is one more plant we found in the IPB, the Jungle Geranium:
2) Santan
a. Common name: Jungle Geranium
b. Scientific name: Ixora coccinea
c. Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Angiospermophyta
Class: Dicotylodones
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Ixora
Speies: coccinea
- Characteristics: This is a plant which is color red. Each strand of this plant has 4 petals which makes it a dicot.
- Ecological relationship: The plant is a producer since it is a plant. It relates with other organisms through predation of herbivores on it. And because we are omnivores, we can eat this too.
AND FINALLY, HERE IS A PICTURE OF THE GERANIUM!
The Ixora coccinea
Well, that's all for now people! See our next stop in this wonderful fieldtrip!
Hey Science Gurus! We must say, we really like your blog. You guys got some cool posts which we really enjoy reading.
ReplyDeleteEvaluation:
* Content - 9
> You guys did not include what you expected to learn in IPB.
* Coherence - 5
* Creativity - 5
* Voice - 5
* Mechanics - 5
* Text Layout - 4
* Graphics & Multimedia - 5
* Intellectual Honesty - 4
TOTAL: 42/45
That's all for now! Good job and keep up the good work!
P.S. We think your Pokemon widget is cool. lol. :D
-Science Adventurers
Oh we apologize for forgetting that detail! Thank you for your peer scores. Hehe, Fernando likes Pokemon so he decided to put in a widget of it. Thanks again!
ReplyDelete-The Science Gurus
I agree with the Science Adventurers. And by the way, since when did the santan become a food for humans? o.O
ReplyDeleteI like the post. It was easy read.
Here is the breakdown of your score:
9, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4
Total: 43/45
Comment: 8/10
Peer: 42/45
GRAND TOTAL: 93