If you’ve ever eaten fruits or vegetables (and let’s hope you have), you have benefited from plants as food.  Of course, the plants we eat have been highly modified by growers to produce larger and sweeter fruit, or heartier vegetables.


There are three basic ways to create plants with new, more desirable traits:


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12 Responses to “Three Ways to Create a Plant”

  1. Aurora Lipper says:

    There is no worksheet for this particular lesson.

  2. antara3693 says:

    where is the worksheet? thanks

  3. Nearly all our lessons have videos, you found one of the very few that we didn’t have one for!

  4. milkbrainbaby says:

    Is there a video lesson to go along with this?

  5. It is very unlikely that we could make an “everything tree”. There are way too many kinds of trees on the planet.

  6. jackiegonzalez772 says:

    Can you make an everything tree?

  7. gulnora12 says:

    What if a date tree is connected to a birch tree? Won’t they get together because birch trees don’t produce the things needed to grow a date?

  8. janae_vanderwilt says:

    love it!

  9. sanasyed314 says:

    What if some of the harmful genes in a bacteria accidentally get transferred into the tomato by the process of transgenics? Wouldn’t it cause a serious health risk?

  10. This is one of the few experiments that doesn’t have a video (yet).

  11. 11romneys says:

    Is there more to this lesson? All I see is the paragraphs… I just don’t want to miss anything like a quiz or experiment! It’s okay if this is just an informative lesson.