This week our scientists wanted to know if a plant could grow without light. Some of our scientists said that a seed could grow without light, where as other scientists said that there was no way a plant could grow! In order to find the truth we conducted a controlled experiment. We planted garlic bulbs in plastic cups seated on moist cotton balls. Each cup had 4 garlic bulbs and 6 cotton balls with 2 vials of water. 5 of the cups were left out under a grow lamp and 3 cups were placed in a shoe box with no exposure to light. Below are a few pictures of the garlic bulbs we planted as well as their lab write up's. |