Day 71..
Plant Science/Soil Science & Agricultural Crop Production
Lab coats on and ready for a session using the microscopes!!! This forms part of our plant structure and function assignment and we were looking at the differences between monocots and dicots. We cut up a bean seed first, to get a cross sectional view, and then compared this to a sweet corn seed. Monocots only have one seed leaf inside the seed coat, whereas dicots produce two seed leaves providing food for the new plant. We then cut the stems of a bean plant and wheat plant to provide a cross section that we put under the microscope to have a really close up view. Whist doing the same for the leaves of these plants we were able to get a really close up look at the parallel veins in the dicot leaf (the bean) and the random, fuller shaped veins of the monocot veins (in the wheat leaf).
Grassland Management
.. Turned into a class test on operator settings on land based machinery!!! We had to discuss the engine, transmission and hydraulic systems, how these can be altered and what happens if altered, as well as modifications made by manufacturers and then what and how these systems are used in a farming scenario, for example going spraying!!!
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