Experiment Overview

Virtual: a simulated (made up) environment based on the real world. Often computers are used to create virtual worlds.

Educators, you might want to introduce this activity using the companion article, Time Traveling Plants, where students explore seed development and also the concepts of suspended animation, and time travel...

There are two parts of the experiment, Data Cards and Comparison Viewer - Viewer Windows. From the Data Cards and the individual Viewer Window, you can open a magnified view of that day's image by clicking on the image. Moving between Data Cards and Comparison Viewer can be done using the Quick Link Viewer.

Virtual Measuring Tool

You can click to place points and find distances using the virtual measuring in the magnification viewer.

The full featured virtual experiment is supported by all browsers except Internet Explorer.

Bibliographic details:

Article: Experiment Overview
Author(s): Dr. Biology
Publisher: Arizona State University School of Life Sciences Ask A Biologist
Site name: ASU - Ask A Biologist
Date published: 22 Dec, 2009
Date accessed:
Link: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/experiments/vpocketseeds_overview

APA Style

Dr. Biology. (Tue, 12/22/2009 - 14:19). Experiment Overview. ASU - Ask A Biologist. Retrieved from https://askabiologist.asu.edu/experiments/vpocketseeds_overview

American Psychological Association. For more info, see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/

Chicago Manual of Style

Dr. Biology. "Experiment Overview". ASU - Ask A Biologist. 22 Dec 2009. https://askabiologist.asu.edu/experiments/vpocketseeds_overview

For more info, see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/04/

MLA 2017 Style

Dr. Biology. "Experiment Overview". ASU - Ask A Biologist. 22 Dec 2009. ASU - Ask A Biologist, Web. https://askabiologist.asu.edu/experiments/vpocketseeds_overview

Modern Language Association, 7th Ed. For more info, see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/

Do seeds need light to grow? How do they know what direction to grow? These are a few of the questions students can explore with the Virtual Pocket Seed Experiment.

Dr. Biology's Virtual Pocket Seed Experiment

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