By:
Emilie Claire Schneider, Archer Leida, Ingrid Borgesen, Yazeed Hamami, Austin Marshall, and Griffin Leland
Unmet need:
All over the world pollution continues to be a growing threat to the health of the population. In places such as Indonesia and China, people are forced to wear face masks in order to remain safe. A quick solution to this problem would be to plant more oxygen producing plants such as trees. Unfortunately, trees take years to grow. Our project could change the rate at which trees grow.
Project Idea:
Our idea is to combine the DNA of a bamboo plant with the DNA of a high oxygen producing plant such as the Conifer. We are also splicing natives trees to most regions for naturalist sales. This would create a faster growing and more resilient tree that would produce large amounts of Oxygen in a polluted area. Since Bamboo plants can virtually grow anywhere, this makes it the ideal plant to combine with the Conifer tree.
Materials:
Bamboo growth genes, Conifer tree saplings, other tree saplings, Petri Dishes, Gene gun
Facilities:
a lab where we could combine the DNA and grow the seedlings
Types of trees by region:
Emilie Claire Schneider, Archer Leida, Ingrid Borgesen, Yazeed Hamami, Austin Marshall, and Griffin Leland
Unmet need:
All over the world pollution continues to be a growing threat to the health of the population. In places such as Indonesia and China, people are forced to wear face masks in order to remain safe. A quick solution to this problem would be to plant more oxygen producing plants such as trees. Unfortunately, trees take years to grow. Our project could change the rate at which trees grow.
Project Idea:
Our idea is to combine the DNA of a bamboo plant with the DNA of a high oxygen producing plant such as the Conifer. We are also splicing natives trees to most regions for naturalist sales. This would create a faster growing and more resilient tree that would produce large amounts of Oxygen in a polluted area. Since Bamboo plants can virtually grow anywhere, this makes it the ideal plant to combine with the Conifer tree.
Materials:
Bamboo growth genes, Conifer tree saplings, other tree saplings, Petri Dishes, Gene gun
Facilities:
a lab where we could combine the DNA and grow the seedlings
Types of trees by region:
Africa:
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Asia:
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Europe:
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North America:
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Oceania(australia/new zealand):
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Estimated Cost of Development:
- BioRad Gene gun ~ $17,000 a pice
- 1 pound of seedling = average of $70Number of Units:
- $17,070
- Order materials
- Test prototype (transferring genes)
- Record growth data
- Use data to prove that it works
- Start selling units by hand
- Grow company
- $ Make money $
- Buy facility for mass production
- Towns and cities with pollution