1. Is It Alive?
By: Patrick Adelmann Boldea, Arkan
Abuyazid, Tierra Buck, and Llarsania Galloza

3. What is this thing?
Well, that's an excellent question. It is a
sizeable mass of some odd brown objects that
are circular in shape.
How are we going to prove if it's living?
Well, we can't do an EKG or an fMRI on it, so
we are going to have to test it for several
characteristics.

4. Characteristics of Living Things
● Does it Grow?
● Produce carbon dioxide?
● Does it consume food?
● Does it have cells?

5. Does it Grow?
The seeds started without tails, but after two
days in different environments, they began to
sprout them. They grow up so fast T-T I think I
need a moment...

6. Consumption of energy
We weighed the cup with water and sugar and
the unknown, then weighed it again after four
days. The weight had changed slightly,
indicating an exudation of CO2 and
consumption of the sugar.

7. Does it Have Cells?
As you can tell from the picture of a slide under
a microscope, there are rectangular structures
throughout the "Tail" of the plant. These are
plant cells.

8. Does it Produce CO2
When placed in a bromothymol blue the seeds
that had began to grow turned the liquid slightly
yellow, proving that they do exude CO2 while
the original unknown did not.

9. Conclusions
Based on the reactions of our different
experiments, we have concluded that our
unknown has cells, produces CO , and is
2
capable of growth. Therefore we have
concluded that our unknown is in fact alive.
Although we believe that our unknown is alive,
we have yet to discover many different
variables. How does our unknown reproduce?
What is it? What kind of environment will
support it once it gets bigger?