How Does Your Garden Grow? Blog Post #6 Annika Gordon

Our plant uses photosynthesis, cell division, and cellular respiration to grow bigger and add biomass, though it seems to be doing this very slowly. When the chlorophyll in the leaves soaks up sunlight during photosynthesis it helps our plant grow bigger, this happens its entire life. It uses cell division to grow back parts of leafs that may have been eaten, and to grow taller so it can get more sunlight and not be left in the shade by the plants surrounding it. Our plant, though small, still uses cellular respiration to produce sugar, ATP, and carbon dioxide, all things which help its growth progress. If a signal was to be sent to the nucleus of the cells in our plant, PEPC and Rubisco would be produced more. This would happen because they are enzymes and enzymes are proteins which make a reaction speed up. The enzymes in plants are partially responsible for its growth, so by producing more PEPC and Rubisco our plant would grow faster.

Katie Inman blog post #6

1. It was  a little hard trying to find our plant today, due to the rapid growth of the grass in the garden.. Our plant is still one of the smallest and is still being eaten by some time of insect. It helps create more biomass by feeding next level consumers, helping their level grow and produce more. Through the process of photosynthesis, not only our plant but all living things in the garden, continue to transfer sun light into energy so they can grow and increase the biomass on their level. It uses mitosis to duplicate the cells making more and making the plant bigger. Also, it uses cellular respiration to release carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.


2. A signal could be sent to the nucleus  to make the enzymes Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) and ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase . Then it could make more since they are proteins. part of photosynthesis, involves these enzymes. The plant uses the enzyme to speed up i digesting other parts of the plant.

Blog Post Assignment #6 : Maddie Gong

1. Our plant hasn't grown much since the last time we saw it. But, many other group's plants are growing a lot around ours. The chloroplasts in the plants are taking in sunlight and using energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen. The plants are also creating energy, sugars and other gases through the process of photosynthesis. Cell division also takes place and new duplicate cells are formed in the plants. Similar to photosynthesis, plants undergo cellular respiration and use oxygen and glucose to create carbon dioxide, water and more energy. All of these products help to power the functions of the cell and start all the processes over again.

2. If a signal was sent out to the nucleus of one of our plants to produce more enzymes such as Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase and ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase the plant cell would start to make more proteins to end up producing more enzymes. The enzymes in the plant are part of photosynthesis and used to digest parts of the plant. They move all around the cell and help speed up some of the processes. The double helix of the particular part of DNA that coded for the required protein would be unzipped, make a complementary strand to one of the DNA strands and re-zipped by RNA Polymerase. Then, the two processes of transcription and translation occur. First, a ribosome would attach itself when the mRNA travels outside the nucleus. Next, the codons or triplets of RNA nucleotides are read by the ribosome and the twinning amino acid for each of the codons are brought by tRNA. After the last process, translation, all the specified amino acids from the mRNA codons have created a protein, or the enzyme the nucleus commanded.

Whitley Moody Blog Post #6

Our plant is still just about as small as it was the last time we checked it a few weeks ago.  But, I did realize that other plants are growing bigger.  Through photosynthesis the plants are growing new organic matter that is contributing the their total biomass. Cell division also contributes to the growing of the plants. Cells divide in order to help organisms grow and reproduce, so the more the cells divide the faster the plants will grow.
The plants would make the enzymes phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase and ribulose 1,5-biphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase very quickly if a signal was sent to the nucleus because they help with photosynthesis and photosynthesis helps the plants grow.   This would happen because enzymes belong to the protein biomolecule group and proteins are shot quickly around the cell, meaning the growing and producing of those enzymes would go very quickly.