Basil
By: Connor McClelland, Colleen Pettit, Jose
Alva, and Meghan Barcinski
Mr. Martell, Period 3, Science
Which plant grows better in light or
dark?
• We think that the plant in the dark will grow
faster than the one in the light.
• We will be showing the progress of our plants
and how fast they grow.
Leaf
Photosynthesis
occurs here
Stem
Roots
Some common uses for
basil are:
Function:
• Tomato sauce, pesto, and Protection
vinegars.
from insects,
bacteria, and
fungi
The plant
grows more with
organic
compounds
3 things that can
affect the growth of
our plant
•Some bugs will eat the
leaves of the basil plant ,
and then the leaves will die.
•Just like most other plants
a lack of water will affect the
basil plants growth.
•Also, since basil needs to
be grown in full sun, little
sunlight will affect the
plants growth.
Photosynthesis
Helps plants generate
sugars.
Occurs in the
chloroplasts of plant
cells.
The xylem is important
because it replaces
water.
The chemical reaction
is the forming of
sugars.
Procedures and Methods
• During this investigation we
watered the plants when
needed and measured their
height.
Chart
Lenght (cm)
Basil Growth
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
Light
(cm)
Dark
(cm)
Date
Observations:
• Our light plant grew
towards the light, because
of a process called
phototropism.
• Our plants roots grew into
the soil because of positive
geotropism.
• We saw that our dark plants
had yellow leaves and white
stems while the light plants
leaves were green with
green stems.
Summary
In our research we learned that
the dark basil grew faster than
the light basil.
In our hypothesis we thought
that the light basil would grow
faster than the dark basil.
One of our questions is that why
was the dark basil turning
yellow and the stem clear?
One of our thoughts are that next
time we would put the plants
out side.
Bibliography
Websites and sources
used:
Mr. Martell’s website
Our composition books