Lauren's Blogpost #6

 Well, plants need sun and water to grow, as well as good soil. It's gotten bigger and obviously grown in biomass. We knew our plant would grow to be healthy, as it started off growing at a ready pace and looking very tall and strong. It was an average size for the plant it was, a cabbage. It went through photosynthesis because it absorbed light from the sun, then it turns it into oxygen and carbohydrates. 

Mitosis is a main part of cell division, where results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus.There are five steps: Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase. In the first phrase, the cell undergoes a period of growth and prepares itself for cell division. The DNA of the cell duplicates in this phase, creating two copies of the strand, a chromosome. During early prophase, the cell begins to break down structures. The nuclear envelope breaks down, and the mitotic spindle forms. In Metaphase, the newly condensed cells line up in the middle of the cell. Now, the nuclear membrane disappears completely. In the stage following that, Anaphase, the sister chromatids get drawn to the opposite ends of the cell. They are now called daughter chromosomes. To prepare for telophase, the two poles move father apart. The nuclear envelope, which had previously broken down, reforms and two new nuclear envelopes around the separated sister chromatids. 

Our plant is using cellular respiration to produce ATP and NADPH. These compound provide energy for cell division in which cells reproduce into 2 identical daughter cells.  cellular respiration occurs in the mitochondria of the cell. The process uses oxygen, which is called aerobic respiration. 

Because of processes like this, our plant was able to grow from a tiny seed, into the blossoming plant it is now. The sunlight was absorbed and it used it as it's energy source to preform photosynthesis. But, sometimes, light is not accessible the to plant and it must use either another source of light, or glucose and oxygen, which are converted into usable energies throughout the plant. 

Phosphoglycerate kinase (PKG) and ribulose 1,5-biophosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) are important enzymes our plant uses in photosynthesis. Enzymes are proteins that speed up a reaction rate of a process. Our plant makes these when DNA in the cells nucleus through transcription.