How Our Seeds Grew
By Lincoln Juarez
By Lincoln Juarez
Our plant has not been growing that much ,but has been growing enough to the point where we can tell it has made progress. Our plant has been using mitosis to reproduce cells asexually to look exactly like the parent plant. An advantage to producing asexually is that it allows successful organisms to reproduce quickly. This process helps our plant to produce little buds that then sprout into flowers which gives a visual of how the plant grows.
The plant uses photosynthesis to create food for itself by using energy from sunlight to produce glucose from carbon dioxide and water. The water and carbon dioxide are used to synthesize food during photosynthesis. The glucose that is created can then be converted into pyruvate which releases adenosine triphosphate or ATP by cellular respiration. Oxygen is also produced in this process and helps release energy from food during respiration. The oxygen in carbon dioxide is released as oxygen gas. The plant uses cellular respiration to create biochemical energy from nutrients into ATP. These all factor into our plant's growth.
Plants need a number of minerals for healthy growth which are absorbed through the roots as mineral ions dissolved in the soil water. Two important mineral ions that plants need are nitrate, for making amino acids, which are needed to make proteins. Our plant would make PKG and Rubisco if there was a signal sent to the nucleus by encoding the large subunit gene in the chloroplast genome and encoding the small subunit genes as a multi-gene family in the nucleus. As you can see, all of these factors go into our plant's growth and helps it stay healthy and be able to grow.
The plant uses photosynthesis to create food for itself by using energy from sunlight to produce glucose from carbon dioxide and water. The water and carbon dioxide are used to synthesize food during photosynthesis. The glucose that is created can then be converted into pyruvate which releases adenosine triphosphate or ATP by cellular respiration. Oxygen is also produced in this process and helps release energy from food during respiration. The oxygen in carbon dioxide is released as oxygen gas. The plant uses cellular respiration to create biochemical energy from nutrients into ATP. These all factor into our plant's growth.
Plants need a number of minerals for healthy growth which are absorbed through the roots as mineral ions dissolved in the soil water. Two important mineral ions that plants need are nitrate, for making amino acids, which are needed to make proteins. Our plant would make PKG and Rubisco if there was a signal sent to the nucleus by encoding the large subunit gene in the chloroplast genome and encoding the small subunit genes as a multi-gene family in the nucleus. As you can see, all of these factors go into our plant's growth and helps it stay healthy and be able to grow.
