Title

The Effect of Ibuprofen, on a Pea plant’s 

Hypothesis

Ibuprofen is used allot with us humans, but not with other organisms, most likely. Ibuprofen is often used for headaches and pain on the body but if used in larger doses it can calm inflammation. In the article, “Use caution when you choose, use pain relievers.” The authors state, all of the different types of pain killers and the effects of them. They stated that ibuprofen thins your blood and can cause kidney failure if you already have thin blood too. The other types of ibuprofen are Advil, Motrin IB, and Nuprin. If you take two kind of ibuprofen at a time, this may cause internal bleeding. So if I fed one plant ibuprofen, dissolved in water and the other plantplain water (The same amount), for over a total of 1 week daily, will the ibuprofen kill the plant? 

Materials And Procedures

Materials:

·         Ruler

·         Measuring Cup

·         2 plants the same

·         Ibuprofen

·         Sunlight

Producers:

Step: 1 Get two identical plants with the same size, and same fertilizer/soil

Step 2: Water on plant A with 1 cup of water and then Plant b with 1 cup of water with 500 ML dissolved in with the water.

Step 3: After you watered the plants you then put the plants in sunlight (Make sure they get the same amount).

Step 4: Every day record your observations on the table provided below

Step 5: Repeat steps 2-5 daily at a certain time you pick (over the course of a week).

Plants	Height	color	How many leaves
Plant A
Plant B

Results and Conclusion

The pea plant, when fed ibuprofen ( Plant B) dies at a slow rate. On the first day of measuring and feeding the plant, the measurement of Plant A was 5 cm and the color was green, it had 3 leafs. Plant B’s height was 4 cm, color green and the leaf count was 4.  Then the next day the plant was 5.3 cm, the color was light green and the leaf count was 3.5. Plant B was 4.2 cm, the color was bright green and the leaf count was 4. The next day, the plants still continued to grow. Plant A grew up to 5.5 cm, the color was bright green and the leaf count was 4. Plant B’s  height was  4.5 cm, the color was green and the leaf count was 4.5. On the fourth day, plant A continued to be at bright green and the leaf count was 5. Plant B was at 5cm and had green leaves with a count of 4. On the 5^th day, plant A grew up to 6cm, bright green and had 5.5 leafs. Plant B changed by the leaves turning yellow. On the 6^th day, plant A kept  on growing to 6.4cm, with a color of bright green, and had 6 leafs. Plant B went down to 4.5 cm in height and the color stayed the same, the leaf count was 3. On the last day plant A continued to grow to 6.6 cm, was bright green and had a total of 6.4 leafs. Plant B shrunk to 4 cm with a color of yellow and a leaf count of 1.

Anlysis

My hypothesis is if Researchers feed on plant ibuprofen dissolved in water and the other plant plain water for over the course of 1 week daily, will the Ibuprofen have any effects of killing the plant fed ibuprofen. The results showed that it slowly started to make the plant in the height measurement and the color. Researchers recorded the height, color, and how many leaves the pea plant had on it. The one fed water grew leaves about every day. The plant fed ibuprofen lost leaves daily but at the begging grew. The colors of both first were equal, and then went in the opposite direction. Plant B, had the Ibuprofen and the height fell down as well to show if the plant grew anymore. They  kept the water and the sun controlled with an equal amount to both of the plants. The color of the plant became yellow and the length of the plant slowly decreased. My results were significance on this topic because Ibuprofen helps stop swelling and pain in the human body. This could help find more information out about the medication. When they interpreted the data from the experiment, it was clear that the plant was dying, but when you interpret it, you don’t know what killed the plant. Was it the amount of CO2 needed was gone, or was it that the nutrients from the water didn’t help. They could have had error in my experiment by not filling the measuring cup to the exact line. They could have put the plants in a spot where they didn’t get the same amount of sunlight. Some of the pills also could have had the different measure of dosage. The Researchers could have done more experiments to show what other ways Ibuprofen affects the body or the color of the soil; to see if the Ibuprofen dried out the soil. If they so other work, a new hypothesis could be used like what type of medication kills the plant faster or what were the symptoms of the plant after the experiment.