Stress to adaptation

I am now reporting a reason for celebration.
I finally have an idea for what I want to do.
Good thing,since my proposal is due on Monday. Basically, I talked with Ms.Alonzo, and she said that I couldn't inflict stress on humans.( should have seen that one coming).
Then she told me to decide between plants or fruit flies.
I decided to torture the plant, and I started researching on what stresses out plants.
Apparently, high humidity or high heat stresses out plants.
So I decided that maybe I could have three plants, one with normal humidity, which would be the control, and the other two plants would have extremes. One would have high temperatures/humidity (pick one) and the other would have low humidity/temperature.
And then I would see how they would adapt to the harsh conditions.
But I guess that would change the purpose of my experiments.
So I guess my experiment would now be about how quickly plants can adapt to their environments.
I wonder how an experiment about stress suddenly became an experiment about adaptation.
Oh, well.
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Harshini Gorijala
STEM student