The Effect of Alcohol and Cigarette on the Embryo

LIQUID
(Bean was soaked in for 24 hrs) DID SEED GERMINATE ?
(Yes or No)

Beer No

Rum No

Water Yes (After 2 weeks)

Milk Yes (2 days to 1 week)

Cigarette Water No

I found out that first, an embryo does not have a choice as to what it eats or drinks. Just like the lima beans, someone had to feed it with what it ate. The human baby eats what the mother eats through the placenta. Secondly, I found out that alcohol (that is in the rum and the beer) and tobacco and nicotine (that is in cigarette) could hurt a plant embryo (lima bean) in the same way it hurt a human embryo (baby). As you can see, if the embryo drank any kind of alcohol and is exposed to tobacco and nicotine at an early age it will damage its growth.

When a woman is pregnant she must be careful of what she eats and drink. In my project all 3 times, the lima beans soaked in alcohol and cigarette water did not germinate. The 3 lima beans soaked in regular water germinate but it took 2 weeks or more. However, the 3 lima beans soaked in milk germinated in less than 1 week. From my project I can now tell a pregnant woman to drink more milk and that drinking alcohol and smoking during pregnancy is dangerous for the baby.

There is a connection between physical defects among newborns and when their mother smoking or drink alcohol during pregnancy. Some of these conditions last for as long as they live. Smoking or drinking alcohol during pregnancy is believed to be the possible causes of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). SIDS is when the baby dies while sleeping with no apparent reason.

Smoking may cause the mother to lose the baby before it is born. This is called a miscarriage.
Children born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy may have trouble learning.
Smoking can cause a baby's heart, lungs or other organs to be damaged.
Baby may have behavioral problem

Baby can be born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) that can cause a baby to look different than normal babies.
The baby may be below normal size and weight at birth. Affected children never 'catch up' in later life.
Physical appearance could include a small head, narrow flat nose, and thin upper lip.
Bones, muscle, skin, eyes, heart and sex organs could be damaged
Baby usually restless, irritable, have poor coordination and hyperactive.
Child may suffer from mild to moderate retardation and learning disability

In my project the seeds soaked in alcohol just didn't grow. As a matter of fact, the one soaked in rum stayed the same size as when it was first planted. It got soft and mashed away. The one soaked in beer swollen up and then got soft and mashed away. The seeds soaked in cigarette water just got black and then mashed away. The ones soaked in regular water and milk grew.

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