Energy flow in plants -- concept map plants are best known for their ability to perform photosynthesis, the process by which light energy is converted to chemical energy in the form of sugars. but plants don't just make sugars; they use them, too. like animals, plants must break sugars down to fuel cellular work. in this activity, you will complete a concept map showing the interrelatedness of sugar production and sugar breakdown in a plant cell. g

A mutually dependent relationship exists between chloroplast and mitochondria in the plant cell. Photosynthesis, which occur in the chloroplasts,generates the sugar and oxygen gas that are used in mitochondria for cellular respiration. It generates carbon-dioxide which in turn is used as a carbon source for the synthesis of sugars during photosynthesis.

Proteins are the workhorses of the cell, controlling virtually every reaction within as well as providing structure and serving as signals to other cells. proteins are long chains of  amino acids  , and the exact sequence of the amino acids determines the final structure and function of the protein. instructions for that sequence are encoded in  genes  . to make a particular protein, a messenger ribonucleic acid (mrna) copy is made from the gene (in the process called  transcription  ), and the mrna is transported to the  ribosome  . protein synthesis, also called  translation  , begins when the two ribosomal subunits link onto the mrna. this step, called initiation, is followed by elongation, in which successive amino acids are added to the growing chain, brought in by transfer rnas (trnas). in this step, the ribosome reads the  nucleotides  of mrna three by three, in units called  codons  , and matches each to three nucleotides on the trna, called the anticodon. finally, during termination, the ribosome unbinds from the mrna, and the  amino acid  chain goes on to be processed and folded to make the final, functional protein