I need ideas for a Botany project (good ones please)!?

Question

I ask of your assistence in my great conundrum of finding a suitable assignement for the field of science. Overall: HELP!

Answer 1

There are so many good ones!

One that I like is to get different plants and grind up each one separately, making a slurry.

Take a small, absorbant disc that you cut out with a hole punch and soak a few discs in each plant extract.

Take a petri dish (with agar or knox gelatin with a little sugar) and a lid, and smear some bacteria on it (you can make a sludge of bacteria by soaking beans in water and letting them rot for a few days or more). When the petri plate with agar is fairly dry (remember to keep it closed), take a couple of discs from each plant extract and place it on the petri dish.

Many plants have natural chemicals that act as antibiotics. You will see a clear area surrounding the extract that had the best ability to kill that particular bacteria.

Hope this made sense.

Answer 2

You should take a plant such as wheat or a flower or whatever you want to use and see under which conditions it will grow the best. Only change the substance you water it with. For example, water one with water, one with 7 up, one with Coffee, one with bleach, and then a couple more with different substances

Answer 3

Get some Venus fly traps and feed them different types of food. Like, grain, meat, dairy, fruit, vegetables (I mean, different *culinary* types of food. I know a "vegetable" isn't a botanical term.)

Try growing plants in different types of light. Uh, cross-pollination of different species. Get a kitty that loves catnip and see if it responds to any other types of herbs.

See if you can enhance the nutritional/medicinal value of a plant by what you add to its soil. Like, if you put willow-bark tea on a mint plant, do you get aspirin-mint?