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.
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