Our hypothesis was considering whether flowers with many blossoms are closely related to flowers with many blossoms versus flowers with single blossoms. We used three different flowers to test our hypothesis: tulip, wisteria, and snap dragon. From our photos, which were posted previously, one can see that wisteria is more closely related to snap dragon that tulip is because of the type of pollen that is in both wisteria and snap dragon. When you look at the pollen table provided on our blog, you can see that snap dragon and wisteria both have monocolpate pollen in them, and tulip has monolete pollen in it. This difference between pollen types in the flowers with different numbers of blossoms tells us that flowers with multiple blossoms are more closely related than flowers with single blossoms, or in terms of our experiment wisteria and snap dragon are more closely related than wisteria and tulip, or snap dragon and tulip.
The only error we saw within our experiment was when we were gathering pollen samples from wisteria and realized wisteria never fully matured so there weren't any pollen samples available. Because of this misfortune, we ended up gathering an anther from a wisteria blossom to analyze it instead, and this worked well but was not as accurate as a pollen sample would have been.
In completion, our question was answered, our hypothesis was supported, we had some minor setbacks when gathering pollen samples, but the analysis was strong and the data helped answer our question despite one setback.
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