how does our garden grow #6

Cell division is characterised by the segregation of genetic material and the redistribution of cellular contents facilitated by the cytoskeleton. Plant cells derive from divisions in the meristems of developing organs. However, plant cells are enclosed in rigid cell walls, unable to migrate and change their location within tissues. plants have developed unique cytoskeletal arrays and molecular mechanism to determine the division plane very early in mitosis and to facilitate the synthesis and insertion of the partitioning cell plate at the end of cell division

Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy, normally from the sun.Although photosynthesis is performed differently by different species, the process always begins when energy from light is absorbed by protiens called reaction centres that contain green chlorophyll pigments.

  Cellular respiration is the process of oxidizing food molecules, like glucose, to carbon dioxide and water.
The process occurs in two phases:

• glycolysis, the breakdown of glucose to pyruvic acid
• the complete oxidation of pyruvic acid to carbon dioxide and water

    In eukaryotes, glycolysis occurs in the cytosol.The remaining processes take place in mitochondria.