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Hypothesis 1: It was hypothesized that the growth and seed pod production in the standard plants would increase when less competitors were present and that growth would be more affected by competition than seed pod production would be. The data in Figure 1 and Figure 2 support this hypothesis; the standard plant grew the most when it was in a container alone and, on average, produced more seeds when no competitors were present (Figure 1). Though growth and seed pod production had similar trends, the difference in growth is higher between the single-plant treatment and the three-plant treatment than the difference in seed pod production between the two treatments. This implies that growth was affected more than seed pod production in the presence of competition. It is important to note that the data relating to the growth of the standard plant were statistically significant (t-test p-value = 0.0104), suggesting that competition affected these results. The data relating to the seed pod production were not statistically significant (t-test p-value = 0.317), meaning competition did not affect the …show more content…
Though the petite plants did not grow nearly as much as the plants of different phenotypes, the petite plant grew the most when competition was not present (Figure 1). Similarly, the seed pod production was higher in the single-plant treatment than the three-plant treatment (Figure 2), further supporting the hypothesis. A t-test determined that the data of growth in petite plants were statistically significant (t-test p-value = 0.00452), so competition affected the plants’ growth. Meanwhile, the data relating to the seed pod production were not statistically significant (t-test p-value = 0.146), meaning competition did not affect the production of

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