My Favorite School Subject

My overall favorite school subject is science. I enjoy it because it focuses on things that are interesting. Unlike math and english, science studies the various functions of the natural world, whether it be geological, botanical, hydrological, or atmospherical. I also enjoy Science because I can relate well to it as most of what it focuses on can be accessed by simply stepping outside. Having just successfully completed a course on Science, I enjoyed it and learned a lot, gaining a greater understanding of how nature works. Throughout the course I studied geology, botany, gardening, weather, conservation, and landscaping, my favorite section was probably the botany section, I enjoy studying plants because they fascinate me, in the following paragraphs I will describe what I learned and observed through the Botany section of my science course.

            Plants are a truly magnificent part of God’s creation, they have several desirable attributes, for one they produce food, as plants are the number one food producers in the world, and almost every country and civilization uses them for some purpose. Plants also bring beauty, as many modern gardeners know, I believe that the desire for beauty has detracted from the potential that plants have to produce food, in this day and age people do not consider that the average suburb yard can produce hundreds of pounds of food for a relatively low price. The only expense when growing food is the seed and water cost, and the time it takes to tend to it. Seeds can be expensive, depending on what variety you are looking at, but one benefit is that a bag of seeds will last multiple years, and in the long run should be worth your while. The cost of water does not matter so much, because you have to water your garden whether it is productive or ornamental. Lastly, the time it takes to care for a productive garden, as the old saying “What you get out of something depends on what you put into it,” definitely applies here, but as long as you do not create problems for yourself, it should not take too much time.

Plants are made up of many parts, some vary in shape, size, and color but the average plant has roots, a main stem, and branches with leaves. The roots can differ in length and density, most plants have a large dominant root called the taproot. Almost all plants have stems, some only have one, such as trees, in which the stem would be the trunk, and some have many, such as bushes. A characteristic that every plant must have is some sort of leaf or needle, the entire purpose of leaves is to perform photosynthesis, which is the process of sunlight being converted to plant energy.

Plants can get extremely complicated, but I won’t go too deep into their anatomy, overall, the purpose of flowers is to reproduce, and this can only be made successful after plants have “mated,” and this occurs when pollen from one plant is transferred, usually by a bee or butterfly, to another plant and once that is done, the plant will close up and develop the seeds. There are two types of seeds, Dicots and Monocots, a Dicot is a seed with two plant embryos and a Monocot only has one.

One of the most amazing functions that plants have is their ability to produce oxygen, believe it or not, oxygen is actually a byproduct of the plant’s system, it is the exact opposite to our breathing function, instead of breathing in oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide, plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen enabling all animals and humans to breath. One thing is for sure, God knew what he was doing when he created plants!