How Does Your Garden Grow? Blog post #6

Me and my team's plants have experienced many changes since we planted them in the garden. Our plants was once so small you could hardly see it but now its almost fully grown and looks like a real brussel sprout plant. Our plants have been growing and adding biomass through the process of photosynthesis by converting sun light energy into glucose, carbohydrates, and oxygen. Along with photosynthesis our plants also uses the process of cellular respiration which produces NADPH and ATP. These compounds provide energy for cellular reproduction. In this process cells reproduce into two identical daughter cells, this process repeats over and over again until the plants grow.

Some important enzymes our plant uses in photosynthesis are Phosphoglycerate kinase (PKG) and ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco). Enzymes are proteins catalysts that lower the activation rate which speeds up chemical reactions. Through the process of transcription our plant can create these enzymes when the DNA in the cell's nucleus is replicated. At the beginning of transcription RNA polymerase unwinds the the DNA strand then adds the corresponding nucleotides to the mRNA. After this the mRNA strand leaves the nucleus and travels to the ribosome with the genetic information. Once this happens translation can begin, the ribosome will search for the starting codons (AUG). Once the starting codon is read the ribosome continues to read the following codons and produce their corresponding amino acids which help create the desired protein or enzyme.

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