I concur.
I'm sure there's something missing from the OP.
Okay, I bet €50 that the teacher's trollin'. That is, €50 from two months in the future
... Yeah, I'm not seeing how you can make it out of dead organic material, but not plants. About all that's left is sponges and meat. Maybe they meant "you can use plant material but it has to be dead"?
Be not afraid...
Can I have whatever your professor is smoking?
Or maybe you're the one smoking it.
The point is, someone is getting high off of some dangerous stuff.
Just awesome like that
She's smoking dead organic material, of course.
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I still don't get it, and the OP has not replied to any of the posts here...
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x4 Who would you be paying if you lose?
Is that cake frosting?
I actually think that this is a very cool project.
The point is not to have the students create a perfect simulation of a plant; the point is to have the students think, and hard, about what a plant is and does.
edited 25th Mar '12 6:00:15 AM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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So all you need to do is build a solar powered glucose factory as a school project? No biggie, good luck with that.
I'm guessing anyone who takes up the bet, meaning that if he wins those people would pay him.
@ Human. I said €50 from two months in the future. It's a dark joke playing on the collapse of the €. i.e. I wouldn't have to pay anyone anything.
Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan!
Oh, come on. We're not really at Weimar Germany levels of inflation yet.
Anyway, constructing a complex living organism from dead matter (i.e. Frankenstein) is quite impossible with the present state of technology. The furthest we've come with Creating Life are a few simple bacteria.
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...
Before or post-Stresseman? 
Nah, I'm messing. The Euro's going to survive.
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Yeah, I don't see how this could be done. Maybe use some... carbon-based things. Which is everything ever.
I don't think they literally meant it has to be alive when it comes to working. I think what he meant was that it has to have the actual structures that are in plants shown in some way or another.
In a "If this suddenly came alive as plant matter, pieced together, does it have the "organs" needed to work?
edited 25th Mar '12 3:04:22 PM by Barkey
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Some sort of fungus or mold perhaps? Or perhaps we are all suckers and this is a troll post and they are getting a kick out of watching people try to figure it out. Aka this whole thing is Smuck Bait.
Who watches the watchmen?
Teacher sounds like a lunatic, to be honest.
And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)