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Can your plant do math? It seems that one plant, the Thale Cress or, Arabidopsis thaliana, may be able to. This plant, which was the first plant to have its genome sequenced in 2000, seems to demonstrate that it can do basic math to researchers.[1] When the amount of time is varied of artificial daylight given (to simulate early/late sunset) to Thale Cress, it seems to calculate how much food storage it needs until sunrise (amount of food divided by time). Before, this was thought to be a fixed rate, but now, evidence suggests that this ingenious plant can calculate how fast it should go though its food reserves to make it through the night.[2][3] Can other plants do this as well?