The Story of the Seed

Our broccoli plant is affected by many things in the environment. Some abiotic factors are wind, water, space, sunlight, and the border walls of the flower beds. These either affect how efficiently they grow or where they grow. Some biotic factors that affect them are predators, competitors, bacteria, and humans. The plants in the garden are competing for resources like sunlight, water, nutrients, and space. You can tell they are competing because if a plant is in a better area it will become bigger and taller. This plant may eventually become big enough to cast a shadow on another plant and reduce its growth even further. If both plants need the same resources and are in the same area, then they are automatically competing with each other. That is the definition of competition. Our plant specifically is competing with grass and a couple other broccoli plants in it's immediate vicinity. Plants that grow quickly and produce the food as they're meant to are the "winners....

Our broccoli plant has changed a lot over the past couple weeks. The plant is a lot bigger than before. Instead of roughly one-inch sprouts, our plant is about 5 inches tall It has light green, oval-shaped leaves. The leaves are smooth and relatively soft. It is in a shady area which might explain why it's not as tall as most other broccoli plants. The plants move water through the biosphere by soaking it up. Later, some of the water gets lost in transpiration. What the pant doesn't soak up is evaporated through the soil. As the plant soaks up water the water molecules split into hydrogen and oxygen molecules. These are later used to make ATP and other molecules that the plant needs for photosynthesis. ATP is used to transport things into and out of the cell through the hydrophobic lipid bilayer. Our broccoli plant does this just like all other plants. I know this because our plant is growing taller and the leaves are still alive and green, therefore it's going through ph...