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.