Edvotek™ AP™ LAB 1: Artificial Selection 

Includes

Quick Plant seeds, nylon mason twine, potting mix, Miracle-Gro™ fertilizer, vermiculite, bees, plastic magnifier, wooden toothpicks and instructions

Requires

Growing System: reused plastic soda or water bottles (500mL), lighting, light box system, digital cameras, lab notebook, water, tape and razor

Students learn how artificial selection works.

Students will perform artificial selection on a population of Quick Plant™ and identify traits that vary in the population. Then they will perform artificial selection by cross-pollinating only selected plants and observe the trait differences between the two populations to learn how selection works.

Order Info

• Class size: 10 laboratory groups
• Takes 30-minute lab periods over course of 5 to 7 weeks to complete the process

Product Type

Investigation 1: Artificial Selection

For Use With (Application)

For pollination

Includes

Instructions, quick plant™ seeds, nylon mason twine, potting mix, miracle-gro fertilizer, vermiculite, bees, plastic magnifier and wooden toothpicks

Requires

Growing system: reused plastic soda or water bottles (500mL), lighting, light box system, digital cameras, lab notebook, water, tape, razor

Time Range

30 min.

Content And Storage

Room temperature

Class Size

10 Lab Groups