How Does Your Garden Grow?

  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 these enzymes to be created, cells have to create new enzymes, a process known as protein synthesis.  The beginning stage occurs in the nucleus in a process known as transcription.  Enzymes are made out of protein so a segment of DNA responsible for protein building in used as a sort of template. This template is used to create messenger RNA also known as mRNA.  Th next step is translation.  The strand of mRNA travels to a ribosome where it is ready to become a protein.  When being fed through the ribosome, the mRNA is in groups of three known as codons.  These codons are read and become specific amino acids that in chains, become a protein.  The starting codon for all proteins is tRNA which the amino acid of methionine, the codon being AUG (the letters represent the different bases of RNA).  The process continues until a codon is UAA, UAG, or UGA.  The ribosome stops, and voila, a new enzyme
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