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TSOTS #6

How does our garden grow. Well it would be necessary to evaluate the current condition of our brassica plants. They have grown taller and wider. Much like the other plants in the garden they’re thriving in green colorations. Unfortunately some appear to be eaten. All the plants are overshadowed by one group’s plant which is much larger than the rest. Now it is important to think more scientific. How are our plants growing is a more important question. Well through photosynthesis the plants obtain sugars to be used by the plants from its chloroplasts. Cellular respiration allows the plants to convert common energies into these nutrients. Much like how food makes a person grow, photosynthesis and cellular respiration makes a plant grow. Of course there is a further explanation of why these sugars makes a plant grow. With more energy comes a greater rate of cell division through mitosis. Mitosis creates myriads of more cells making a little sprout into a great tree.

 PKG and Rubisco are two important enzymes used in the process of photosynthesis. Without enzymes creating reactions, then plants couldn’t grow. Yet how does a plant create enzymes? It starts with a signal to the nucleus. In the nucleus the DNA is replicated through RNA which is transcription.  This RNA is “messaged” out of the nucleus and translated from a ribosome. Codons which are three sets of nucleotides code for a specific amino acid. These amino acids can be used then to create proteins. Enzymes are proteins which is how a plant can naturally create enzymes. It is a beautiful and intricate process between DNA, RNA, enzymes, cells, sunlight, and more. So much is happening in plants even though they appear to simply do nothing.

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