Examining ATI Wisdom Booklets: Booklet 5 – Science – How Wheat Grows

Everything in the section above is correct.  What confuses me is WHY this information is placed here.  The last section left off with a seed spitting out of the seed coat and using up the stored energy in the seed.  There is no discussion of the embryonic leaves (cotyledons) or the process by which the embryo figures out how to send the leaves up towards the surface while sending roots downward.

• How did we transition from roots to grasshoppers?
• Grasshoppers and locusts are not a problem for farmers in North America; we managed to extinct the only grasshopper species that formed swarms in the US – known as the Rocky Mountain Locust – and no one is entirely sure how. (The best ideas right now center around destruction of the eggs in the soil as a side-effect of plowing for agricultural land or gold mine digging.)
• Locust swarms are more problematic in Australia and a major issue in Africa.