The Secrets of Translocation - Page 26

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Summary: Professor Glierce's Plant Physiology class is well-known as being one of the hardest courses around, but college senior Ellen and her best friend Katie resolve to do their best in it since it's the final course Ellen needs to graduate. Their end-of-semester assignment? To find a way to obtain as pure phloem content as possible from the alfalfa plant they are given, and keep the plant alive the whole time. But it's not as easy as sticking a needle in the plant and calling it a day. To make matters worse, their plant becomes infested with aphids, putting their chances of getting a good grade on the project in jeopardy! Ellen and Katie will have to get the aphids off and keep the plant alive—all while trying to figure out a way to pass this assignment for good!

This is an assignment that I have chosen (and has been approved) for my final Biology course at my college. It'll be a self-published, printed book!

Page 26 of 47.

Haha, this is probably the page that's by far the least realistic in the story, mostly because of the "talking" aphids. Aphids don't actually talk, of course, and we wouldn't be able to understand them anyway. I just added it in for humorous effect, and also, in the early stages of this story's formation, I was playing around with such ideas as maybe making a story that follows the aphid life cycle and having them talk since they were the only characters in the story, but now it's turned into a realistic slice-of-life story in which aphids are a small but crucial part of, literally and figuratively.