Blog post 6 Jack

        Since our last blog post our plant has gotten a lot bigger and gained biomass. This happens by having its cells divide through mitosis, but it has to collect sugar for energy and use it. For the plant to perform photosynthesis it has to collect sugar which then converts Co2 and water into o2 and sugar. It then is able to move the sugars to cells to cells that don't have sugar so all cells in the plant can grow and perform mitosis.


For the plant to perform photosynthesis plant cells need enzymes phosphoenolpyruate carboxylase and ribulose 1.5 bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, when the cell tells the nucleus to produce more of these enzymes it will have RNA synthase go to the part of the chromosome containing the gene coding for protein. It then goes to split the DNA down the middle so it can copy the information and make mRNA. It does through the process of complimenting base pairs. It then sends the mRNA to ribosomes to create protein. It then reads the genes in sets of three base pairs also known as codons which codes what amino acids are to be added to the polypeptide in the order that it's read. After a certain point one of the codons will tell the ribosome that the protein is complete so it will release it and the mRNA by then completes the process of the creation of the enzyme.