Sugars and Plant Growth Data
How the Addition of Extra Sugar Affects the Growth of Plants
Lacey Fish
Florence Nguyen
Danielle Wang
Julia Wu
Botany 10MWF
April 4, 2006
Materials:
1. 20 Mung beans
2. 4 plastic cups
3. soil
4. Turbino sugar
5. Distilled water
6. Beakers
7. Graduated cylinders
8. Stir plate
9. Scale
10. String
11. Ruler with cm measurements
12. Stir bar
Background: We chose this project because we were curious to see how the amount of raw sugar in the soil surrounding a seed during the first 2 weeks of its life affects its growth. We proposed that it would help the plant because one of the results of photosynthesis was a product of sugar. We thought that perhaps a raw sugar would be absorbed through the roots and provide the plant with more energy. We chose Turbino sugar as our raw sugar.
Procedures:
1. Form a hypothesis.
2. Soak the Mung beans for around 24 hours to loosen the seed coats.
3. Make the water/Turbino solutions.
Use a scale to measure .5, 1.0, and 1.5 grams of Turbino sugar
Then, add each amount to a separate beaker and add 50 mL of distilled water to each beaker.
Set each beaker on a stir plate with a stir bar and leave until the sugar is completely dissolved.
4. Label the four cups as Cup 1, 2, 3, and 4, with Cup 1 being the .5g of sugar, Cup 2 being the 1.0g of sugar, Cup 3 being the 1.5g of sugar, and Cup 4 as the control.
5. Fill the four cups with equal amounts of soil.
6. Plant 5 mung beans in each of the cups about 1 cm below the soil.
7. Water each of the plants with their water solution.
8. Keep track of the plants’ growth throughout the next 2 weeks and take measurements.
To take more accurate measurements, measure the length of the plant with string, then lay the string along the ruler.
9. At the end of the 2 weeks, collect data and see if the beginning hypothesis was correct.
Data Collected:
3/13/07
Seed Rangers
*seed coat
Lacey Fish
Florence Nguyen
Danielle Wang
Julia Wu
Botany 10MWF
April 4, 2006
Materials:
1. 20 Mung beans
2. 4 plastic cups
3. soil
4. Turbino sugar
5. Distilled water
6. Beakers
7. Graduated cylinders
8. Stir plate
9. Scale
10. String
11. Ruler with cm measurements
12. Stir bar
Background: We chose this project because we were curious to see how the amount of raw sugar in the soil surrounding a seed during the first 2 weeks of its life affects its growth. We proposed that it would help the plant because one of the results of photosynthesis was a product of sugar. We thought that perhaps a raw sugar would be absorbed through the roots and provide the plant with more energy. We chose Turbino sugar as our raw sugar.
Procedures:
1. Form a hypothesis.
2. Soak the Mung beans for around 24 hours to loosen the seed coats.
3. Make the water/Turbino solutions.
Use a scale to measure .5, 1.0, and 1.5 grams of Turbino sugar
Then, add each amount to a separate beaker and add 50 mL of distilled water to each beaker.
Set each beaker on a stir plate with a stir bar and leave until the sugar is completely dissolved.
4. Label the four cups as Cup 1, 2, 3, and 4, with Cup 1 being the .5g of sugar, Cup 2 being the 1.0g of sugar, Cup 3 being the 1.5g of sugar, and Cup 4 as the control.
5. Fill the four cups with equal amounts of soil.
6. Plant 5 mung beans in each of the cups about 1 cm below the soil.
7. Water each of the plants with their water solution.
8. Keep track of the plants’ growth throughout the next 2 weeks and take measurements.
To take more accurate measurements, measure the length of the plant with string, then lay the string along the ruler.
9. At the end of the 2 weeks, collect data and see if the beginning hypothesis was correct.
Data Collected:
3/13/07
Seed Rangers
*seed coat