“Bioluminescence tree using fireflies’ DNA” Author: Taylor Waggoner To support reforestation that helps
the environment.
Seeing a bioluminescence tree on the https://prezi.com/zeat2k__hiw0/how-do-jellyfish-
produce- Methodology
streets is not impossible nowadays. Using
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biotechnology in such matters is a great idea that 3tnTshWMVAstaeVmzjKwkKr2bU61s0 In this research, the items in the
makes a great help to the environment. articles is studied by analyzing problems
4. Basic Bioluminescence of society and finding its solution using
There are some articles which support biotechnology. The researchers believe
these issues: Date: January 2014 that biotechnology can used to provide
Author: John Lee lights bright enough to illuminate the
1. In The Not So Distant Future, Glow-In- entire streets.
The-Dark Trees Could Replace Street https://www.researchgate.net/publication/28196933
Lights 6_Basic_Bioluminescence Phenomenology is the research
design that was used to discuss how to be
Date: 04-02-2014 5. Glow-in-Dark Plants able to make this idea.
Author: Katherine Brooks Date: 07-03-2018 The proponents collect data by
getting DNA sample of a jellyfish and
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daan- fireflies as well as the trees.
roosegaarde_n_5044578?fbclid=IwAR2TRjQG Author: Alison Willis
I0WwJx0iJr6hfhz7q3LVbinp0cWn8- The research strategy is combining
9KLuUmbfV5Kx9Bdxdu5A4 https://askabiologist.asu.edu/plosable/glow- the DNA of jellyfish or fireflies and trees
plants?fbclid=IwAR3CPTUUTmzqmrumzRv7R to produced bioluminescence seeds. The
2. Glow-in-the-dark trees could someday 731JzGML4ArOhl5O94TIQPF6_J2VW7QOwix research involves a systematic process
Mjk that focuses on being objective in
replace city street lights
gathering information so that the
Date: 08-17-2018 researchers can come up to a conclusion.
Author: Lana Brandoim Objectives:
Data Interpretation
https://theweek.com/articles/763908/glowin To replace the street lights with
thedark-trees-could-someday-replace-city-street- this glow in the dark trees using Since the process of bacterial
more efficient materials. glowing was discovered, scientists have
lights
To reduce the use of energy and tried to apply it to other organisms as
3. How and why do jellyfish produce a light? electricity in the streets. well. One example of this is Green
To provide more efficient lights in Fluorescence Proteins (GFPs). GFPs are
Date: 04-29-2014 the isolated areas. used by scientists to tell if experiments
involving gene exchanges have worked.
The genes for GFPs are included when suggests the importance of studying the
scientists insert other genes into an biology as well as monitoring the changes
organism’s DNA. If the organism glows better have good street lights and to save
after these genes were inserted, then electricity consumption.
scientists know that the insertion was
successful. Ninety percent of deep-sea
marine life is estimated to produce
bioluminescence in one form or another.
Scientists have learned that because of the
similarities between plants and bacteria,
certain sections of their DNA can be
manipulated or exchanged. Both
organisms have the genes that make the
proteins which allow the organism to
glow. But plants (specifically, their
chloroplasts) lack the gene that switches
on this protein-making process.
Researchers find out this would reduce the
amount of energy we consume or provide
nighttime lighting to those without
electricity. With this discovery we may
one day be able to walk around on an
alien planet without ever leaving Earth.
Conclusion
Pertaining the analysis about
those article, lights are one of important
thing for us. To achieve a more stable and
sustainable condition of streets, scientific
knowledge by getting DNA jellyfishes is
good for lighting trees. Lighting accounts
for around 20 percent of worldwide
energy consumption, so replacing them
with naturally bioluminescent plants
would represent a significant cut to CO2
emissions (Collins, 2017). This evidence
