How does your garden grow?

1.   Our kale plant has been growing steadily ever since the day we planted it into the soil.  It has been adding biomass by going through mitosis.  This happens because the cells split and make more cells and the plant keeps growing up and up.  The plant keeps feeding its self by turning sun light into food and this is called photosynthesis.  Cellular respiration has been occurring and the kale plant has been giving off ATP.

2. Rubisco an enzyme that catalyses at the beginning of the Calvin Cycle.  This mean if lots of Rubiso is produced it will seed up the Calvin Cycle. The enzyme PEPC uses bicarbonate to catalyze the B-carboxylation of PEP, to create the 4-carbon acid oxaloacetate. The PEPC in our kale plant it  helps give back citric acid to help the cycal, oxaloacetate, and malate.  IT is needed to compleate nitrogen assimilation and amino acid biosynthesis. If more PEPC is made it will help  4-carbon acid oxaloacetate would continued to be made, as well as citric acid cycle intermediates, oxaloacetate and malate.