• Question: what plants are most effected by experiments you have done in the past, are there some that show up in perculiar results a few times? if so are the results good or bad?

    Asked by izzyturner to Carla on 11 Nov 2013.
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      Carla Turner answered on 11 Nov 2013:


      We have only looked at three different plants.

      One of them was a little strange, so we looked at it further. After we had changed it’s genes the leaves were smaller than we expected and we did not know why.
      This lead us to look at the roots and they were massive. We think the plant was putting all of it’s energy into making roots and that’s why the leave were smaller. We think it did this as it needed more nutrients.

      Its quite a complicated idea, I hope I have explained it well enough.

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