In the spring of 2018, as part of the Writing in Biology class at the University of Massachusetts I was assigned a project with the specific goal is to create a multi paneled scientific illustration that displays a flowering plant on the Umass campus.
The project also hoped to enhance my scientific writing ability and the ability to construct a methods section that can be followed by a complete stranger and still provide the same results. The plant I picked was Camellia Japonica, a flowering plant native to eastern China and southern Japan. The organism was found Durfee Conservatory and Garden on the Umass campus between UHS and Morrill II. It is a flowering organism that is not within normal human reach in order to reduce the amount of interaction with the sample. It is a bright pink flower on a small tree like plant, allowing it to be easily identifiable. The fact that the organism has reduced human interaction and is also easily identifiable will allow this experiment to be easy replicated by other interested scholars. Overall this organism will provide a wonderful sample for this experiment and should allow for a successful multi-panel to be created.
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