| Something On Something About The Life Of Rice |
| The "rice" we eat comes from an amazing thing called a "plant". Well, actually, the rice is the plant thing, but then the plant makes more rice. Quite fascinating. The rice plant is part of the grass family, and regular (white in color, grows on something called a "farm, plantation, or paddy") takes an average of five months to mature to the point where it can be collected and processed into the rice thingies that we eat (well me, at least). If you thought all that was amazing, even more amazing is that the rice we eat is actually an amazingly nutrient filled object dubbed a "seed". A seed is very self sustaining, and grows into the thing (plant, named above), which makes more rice seeds! Being a seed, it holds all the nutrients our own bodies can't make, so if we eat them we become something called "healthy!" With just the right amount of water, the rice seeds blow up and begin to grow little tentacle-like objects called roots. The roots are about yay big (1100110011), and keep the rice baby seeds stuck to the ground so creepy red and black things called ants don't carry them away or something. The rice seed is double ended, and from the other side (bottom, top) a s-t-e-m crawls upwards, and once it gets to above ground, it begins the natural photosynthesis process, and sustains itself in this manner, as the poor little rice seed is all but exhausted. From this point on, the rice plant just keeps growing leaves like the normal English grass we have in our backyards (well, at least you should have it), and keeps doing the photosynthesis thing, while the roots are absorbing minerals from the ground (which is called soil, by the way), which is cool, because before you just thought that all they did was to keep the plant to the ground (which is the good thing about an incremental explanation process like mine :)). Oh and by the way II, if you wish for the well being of the rice plant you should have planted the seed in spring. Finally, a season later, in summer, the rice plant grows this huge spike thingy, which is made of lots of tiny little spikes, which all contain a minature seed blossom, which later turns into a seed. And the rice plant lived happily ever after *. *The rice plant was destroyed shortly after its happy ever after was announced. |