NAME: Francis Ivan DJ Roque GRADE AND SECTION: 12-Bragion

Title: PICTOGRAM

Performance Standard

-Make a diagram (e.g., pictogram, poster) showing the evolution of a domesticated crop

Product/Performance Description
TOPIC GUIDE: GENETIC MODIFICATION/ENGINEERING

- The student will be able to complete 5 diagrams (pictogram)

 - The student will be able to find available material/references in the internet.
- The student will be able to do some research while in the process of making the diagrams (pictogram),
- Be creative!

DOCUMENTATION (BEFORE, DURING AND FINISHED PRODUCT)

I.
Crop name Modern name Process/Application of Difference between Purpose Effect of
Domestication original and modern domestication to
crop other
crops/organisms
1. Zea mays Maize Corn was originally domesticated in • No hard-outer • To increase the It has learned the art of
Mexico by native peoples by about kernel shell edibility and oral converting air, water,
9,000 years ago. They used many • only has one digestibility of and sunshine into
generations of selective breeding to central stalk kernels calories and nutrients,
transform a wild teosinte grass with • From two rows of • To extend the and its high output
small grains into the rich source of rock-hard kernels flowering period makes it a stable food
food that is modern Zea mays. to 6-18 of softer • To increase the source. It can also adapt
edible kernels number of kernel to diverse climates,
• Better taste rows and the making planting and
• Greater number columns per row care a breeze.
kernels of per • Having the ability
row to develop from a
single stem
II.
2. Solanum Solanum The Incas are said to have been
tuberosum L the first to plant potatoes all the
way up to 3,800 meters above sea
level in the Andes mountain
region. The Incas discovered that
by dehydrating the potatoes into a
substance called chuño, they could
store it for up to 10 or even 15
years.
• The potato's • Pollen fertility was also Potatoes improved the
major diminished as a result of nutritious value of
difference is potato domestication. people's diets while also
that it has Cultivated species develop generating jobs and
from tubers, but wild
grown in population growth in the
species must be fruitful to
size and areas where they were
disseminate seeds. The
sweetness. effect of this irrelevance farmed.
on the species' fecundity
might be seen at the
genetic level.
III.

3. Triticum Triticum L / Wheat was domesticated ten • Domesticated • The rationale for The shift from a
aestivum Wheat thousand years ago in what is now wheat has bigger domesticating hunter-gatherer and
the Middle East, when people seeds with hulls wheat is that it nomadic pastoral
quickly changed the crop's main and a non- permits the plant civilization to a more
shattering rachis,
characteristics. It is distinguished to keep its seeds sedentary agrarian
are the core
from wild wheat by its non- and be harvested society makes it
factors between
shattering spikes, which enable the wild and more readily. possible.
plant to store its seeds and be domesticated
harvested more readily. wheat.
IV.

4. Genus Cucurbitaceae Squash domestication, on the • The major • To be resistant to Since it was cultivated,
Cucurbita other hand, happened quickly. difference is that it infection by two it can now be eaten by
Human selection for diverse has grown in size plant viruses from both animals and
features linked to edibility, as and variety. the potyvirus humans and has a
well as seed size and rind family, WMV2 and lower chance of
thickness, was undoubtedly a ZYMV. contracting viruses.
factor in domestication. It's also
been proposed that the
usefulness of dried gourds as
containers or fishing weights
influenced domestication.
V.
5. Cucurbitaceae Lagenaria Subspecies of the bottle gourd,
siceraria Lagenaria siceraria, have been
discovered in archaeological
sites dating back to 13,000
BCE, making it one of the
earliest domesticated types of
plants.
• The gourd's • The goal of The impact of this
major difference domesticating the domesticated crop on
is its color and gourd is to make it organism, particularly
form. simpler to plant. humans, is that it has
allowed them to utilize
it as tools, musical
instruments, art pieces,
movies, and food
throughout history.
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Prepared by:
MR. JOHN MATTHEW M. DESIDERIO
General Biology 2 Teacher