Story of the Seed-The Brussels Sprouts Brief

  Our plants in the garden have grown in biomoss from a combination of mitosis, cellular respiration and photosynthesis.  The process of photosynthesis includes the end result of creating glucose.  These glucose molecules can either be turned into fuel cellular respiration or turn into organic molecules to add biomass to the plant.  Mitosis is the process that in the end results in two sister cells.  These cells are more than the organism just had so it gets bigger or it's more cells to do photosynthesis and increase the amount of glucose molecules produced.  We unfortunately don't have pictures to display how these processes have changed the size of the plant.  However, the whole garden has showed that photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and mitosis have been working and increasing the biomass of plants.    Phosphoglycerate kinase and  ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase are two important enzymes that  are necessary in carrying out  photosynthesis.  In order for

 1  The Brussel sprout plant that my team and I grew has grown very large and gained a lot of biomass. The main reason it grew so large was because of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis occurs when a green plant harnesses the sun's rays of light and turns that into energy or sugars (using the  photosynthesis equation) for the plant to help it grow and prepare for other things. One thing that helps a plant go through photosynthesis is cellular respiration. Cellular respiration helps produce ATP(adenosine triphosphate, which is a useful ) energy transporter) from the water and oxygen from the plant. One of the things that helped our plant gain so much biomass was mitosis. Mitosis is when one preexisting cell replicates into 2 identical daughter cells that are the same as their parent cell. 2     Phospheonolpyuate carboxylase (PEPC) and ribulose1,5-bisphosphate Carboxylase/oxygenase are essential to perform photosynthesis. The cell creates PEPC by using RNAsynthase to go to a gene in a

1. Our Brussels sprout has increased it's mass tremendously.  Obviously the main way our plant increased it's size was through photosynthesis. Our plant had plenty of chlorophyll(a pigment that made our plant the color green), which captured the sun's energy and used it to make sugar out of CO2 from the air and water. The sugar fueled our plants stem, leaves, and roots to further it's growth. Cellular respiration was key during photosynthesis because it produced ATP from the oxygen and water that is basically sugar.Also with the help of mitosis, our plant's cells grew and replicated to increase our plants mass. Mitosis is the process of nuclear division in eukaryotic cells that occurs when a parent cell divides to make two identical daughter cells. Cell division is the main occurance that happened in our cell, but mitosis was specifically helping duplication during this process. 2. The pep carboxylase was a major help in our plant growth in the way that it plays i