Bioremediation is the process in which living things such as plants, fungi and bacteria remove toxins from the environment. Bioremediation has two types: Phytoremediation and Mycoremediation. Phytoremediation involves plants removing toxins while Mycoremediation involves fungi. When living things bioremediate, they metabolize a toxin by taking in the toxin, digesting them, and making it safer. Toxins such as lead, mercury, copper, and zinc enter the environment through cleaning solvents, production in factories, and e-waste. They then cause harm to living things when eaten or absorbed from the environment. Toxins can cause brain damage, vomiting, nausea, kidney damage, and even death. Bioremediation could solve this by making the toxins safer after entering the environment, although it would not prevent the problem. I will be investigating the effect copper and zinc have on Brassica Rapa during my bioremediation experiment. One example of a bioremediation experiment is from Fukushima. An earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in March 2011, which caused a nuclear power plant accident. After this accident, high quantities of radioactive substances were left in the soil around Fukushima. In an attempt to solve this problem, a project was started to reduce the radiation to a safe level. Sunflowers were planted around Fukushima to bioremediate and help reduce the high levels of remediation.…show more content… They are used for experiments by scientists and students to investigate things such as plant growth, development, reproduction, variation, ecology, physiology, and inheritance. In my experiment, we will be using the Fast Plant Brassica Rapa. Brassica rapa typically have a stem that grows 30 to 120 cm. The leaves can grow up to 50 cm long and the flowers usually grow less than two
