The Wonders of Biodiversity

Our group has been experimenting on called Collard Green (Champions). This plant is really long and bulky, it grows really quick and can protect its self from too much sun which is really nice. My plant is descended from the Collard breed plant some are also edible and give lots of Vitamins. I can predict what kinds of traits the offspring will have because of meiosis and punnet square with the plants genotypes. They would acquire these traits through meiosis and by crossing over, also by their parents gametes joining together and the way their genes line up during independent assortment. My plants would pass its genetic info onto the next by a process known as meiosis where four new and different haploid daughter cells, which are mated and the genes are passed on to the next generation. Our plants offsprings might look like them or probably not because of process known as crossing-over, where chromatids of homologous chromosomes pair up forming an x and then they are broken into segments. These segments are later then exchanged with the other chromatid of the homologous chromosome. So many different forms of came to be from just one ancestral species because of meiosis and it's creation of four geneticly different haploid daughter cells. 

Meiosis Model!

Cytokenesis

Prophase 1

 Metaphase 1

 Anaphase 1

 Crossover

 Telephase 1

 Anaphase

2 Daughter cells

Mitosis 2 and Final Results

How Does Your Garden Grow?

HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?

          Ever since we have watered our plants, they have grown. They have used the process of mitosis to grow and divide, forming new cells. They have also used photosynthesis, which gave them the energy they needed to develop. By taking in carbon dioxide and water, the plants' cells were able to create sugars and give out oxygen, which is needed by all living organisms. 

           The enzymes would be produced by the plant nucleus getting a signal to release the necessary gene for Transcription. Messenger RNA or RNA strands are given the contributed DNA. The messenger RNA goes into the cytoplasm and then to a ribosome. The ribosome then changes the nucleotides into amino acids. The amino acids then shape the requested codon pattern. The polypeptide chain will then be folded and then the enzyme is ready to work in the plant.

Here are some pictures:

Seed Stories

Plants. Before this project I always thought that planting watering and growing is a huge waste of time. There was something about me that hated how I had to stoop to my knees and plant a seed then everyday having to water it. But after this project I have a different view on planting and growing plants, also during this project I have learned a lot not only about plants but how they grow, for example I learned how plants use photosynthesis to take in sunlight and turn it into food. I also liked how are group all worked as a family and how I made friends while this project was going on. I had lots of fun with this lab and I also hope so did my group.

Niall, one of my partners in my lab group, learned how some seeds can not grow in different temperatures for example seeds have to be in a certain temperature to grow big. Niall was a really good helper he was not only an extra set of hands when we needed him but he was the key to this group. He would always give extremely good ideas and we would always listen to them. Niall had tons of awesome fun in this project and learned how to grow plants

How does our garden grow?

Plants grow bigger and bigger over a short period of time and how that happens is all about these 3 big reasons. Photosynthesis, Cellular Respiration, and Mitosis also known as cell division. First off photosynthesis is one really important aspect of one plant. Photosynthesis is a process used by plants, and other organisms to convert the light energy from sunlight, and turn it into food for the plant to eat, so it can survive and grow. Another aspect is Mitosis or also known as cell division, this is when the cell makes copies of their own chromosomes and split in to two creating an identical cell. Each of the cells split and the newly formed cells kept splitting and that is what made are plant grow bigger and bigger. Cellular respiration is one aspect that is really important to the plant, it is important to the plant because the cells harvest the energy stored in food.

My plants made enzymes such as Rubisco and PEPC through protein synthesis. Those enzymes would help speed up reactions in the plant that help them grow. Enzymes are proteins and that is why thay are made in protein synthesis.

Sumano_Gabriela 4 Biology project - Google Drive cell organelle project

Three things I learned about enzymes are:
1.Enzymes are proteins
2.An enzyme speeds up a chemical reaction
3.Enzymes are reusable