Student Blog Post #7 by Edrick Sok

A plant fertilizes sexually, just like all other animals. They go through the process of meiosis, a way for them to reproduce, the process that reduces the number of chromosomes by half. The plants have both the male reproductive organs and the female reproductive organs. The stamen, the male organ, would release pollen grains in the air, setting up to be carried by another insect. The insect would carry the pollen to another flower. They would place the pollen grain onto the stigma of the carpel, where it would be sucked down the pollen tube. Where the sperm would join with the egg inside the ovary inside an ovule. This is the same for all of the ovules inside the ovary. After the fertilization happens, the ovules develops into a seed, containing an embryo. Finally, when it matures it turns into a fruit, the seeds will grow off the fruit.

This is an anther. This is part male reproductive system of the flower. The anther is a part of the Stamen and so is the Filament. Its role in the angiosperm is to release the pollen grains in the air, for hopes of being set on a stigma of a carpel of another flower.

This is the Stigma of the flower. It's part of the female reproductive system of the flower. It's used as the entry point for the pollen. Where it is taken down the pollen tube inside the Style of the Carpel. The pollen tube goes down to the Ovary into the Ovules.

TSOTS #6 by elias

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 Our plant is getting bigger and adding biomass by going through the process of photosynthesis. A way for plants to make water by converting the sun's energy into water for the water. They would also use cellular respiration, to make sugars and food to eat. They can go through cell division, just like the animal cells. The mitosis process allows them to grow, getting larger through the process. Photosynthesis and cellular respiration keeps them alive while it is going through the process. I have noticed that it has not really grown in a while. I remembered that you told me that it might of been of a small animal eating some of the roots.

2. The way they can make more of these important enzymes is by going through the process of Transcription and Translation. Starting from the DNA, they transcribe to fit the mRNA. Then, they are taken out of the nucleus and toward the ribosomes. Which happens on the Rough Endoplasmic reticulum (ER). After that, they are later translated in the ribosome. The complex folding happens later in the Golgi Apparatus. Which creates another protein that is available for use.

Blog Post #6

My plant is getting bigger by th minute! It is adding biomass and growing by going through the process of photosynthesis. This is helpful for my plant because it create water and chemical energy which is then realeased. It also has a byproduct of oxygen. My plant also uses cellular respiration, this creates sugars for the plant to eat when photosynthesis can not happen, such as night time, this rotation of cellular respiration and photosynthesis helps grow the plant consistently. The plant also goes through cell division which creates two daughter cells from one parent cell, this also involves the plant growth since it is increasing it biomass. My plant goes through the whole process of cell division; interphase, prophase,  metaphase, anaphase, telophase, cytokinesis. My plant is going trough these processes when the resources are available.
        The way they can make more of these important enzymes is is by goin through the process of transcription and translation. Starting from the DNA, they transcribe to fit the mRNA. Then, they are taken out of the nucleus and toward the ribosomes, this occurs on the rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER). After that, they are translated in the ribosomes, they take in the mRNA by three; codons. These are read and made into amino acids.

Student Blog Post #6 How Does Your Garden Grow?

The Story Of The Seed

Blog Post #6

1. How is your plant getting bigger and adding biomass? Your explanation should correctly use the terms and concepts of cell division (mitosis), photosynthesis, and cellular respiration.                                                                                                                My plant is getting bigger and adding biomass by going through the process of photosynthesis. A way for plants to make water by converting the sun's energy into water for the water. They would also use cellular respiration, to make sugars and food to eat. They can go through cell division, just like the animal cells. Even if they don't have centrioles, they can still go through all of the phases like metaphase, interphase, anaphase, and telophase just like animal cells. The mitosis process allows them to grow, getting larger through the process. Photosynthesis and cellular respiration keeps them alive while it is going through the process.  
2. Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) and ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) are two important enzymes used in photosynthesis. Describe how your plants would make these enzymes if a signal was sent to the nucleus to produce more of them. (Hint: enzymes belong to which category of biomolecule?)  The way they can make more of these important enzymes is by going through the process of Transcription and Translation. Starting from the DNA, they transcribe to fit the mRNA. Then, they are taken out of the nucleus and toward the ribosomes. Which happens on the Rough Endoplasmic reticulum (ER). After that, they are later translated in the ribosome. The complex folding happens later in the Golgi Apparatus. Which creates another protein that is available for use.