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Everything you need to know about growing fast plants.
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Seed Varieties
Find the seed type that is best suited for your learning opportunity.
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Lessons & Investigations
Classroom activities and guides for helping you plan your lessons.
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Origin of Fast Plants
Learn about the history and creation of fast plants.
The Life Cycle of Fast Plants®
The life cycle for Fast Plants is extremely short; under ideal growing conditions of continuous light, water and nutrition, plants will produce harvestable seeds approximately 40 days after planting.
Lessons & Investigations
Find learning materials and classroom activities to use for all ages.
Environment and Fast Plants Hands-On Classroom Investigations
Wisconsin Fast Plants are very responsive to their environments, and plant phenotypes will reflect the environment in which a plant was raised. Growing Fast Plants with varying environmental conditions (example: soil content, fertilizer, temperature) provides opportunity for learning about the relationship between plant phenotype and environmental variation. How can I teach about the environment using Wisconsin Fast Plants? Learn more about ...
Read MoreInheritance and Genetics: Observing Variation and Measuring Selection in Fast Plants
Variation is a fundamental attribute of life; understanding its nature is important to all. Wisconsin Fast Plants are an ideal model for teaching this concept, with easily observable variation in many plant traits. This variation can be observed, described, and measured or quantified to gain greater understanding of plant traits. Development of selection experiments allows analysis of recorded data and measuring ...
Read MoreInheritance and Genetics: Understanding Patterns of Inheritance in Fast Plants
Wisconsin Fast Plants are an ideal model organism for observing and learning about inheritance patterns! Monohybrid and Dihybrid crosses demonstrate Mendelian patterns while other genetic stocks provide opportunity for observing cytoplasmic traits and developing of selection experiments. What inheritance patterns are observable in Fast Plants? Mendelian traits: monohybrid cross this investigation focuses on the genetics of the plant stem color trait Mendelian ...
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