EXTRA POINTS: Plants must undergo certain processes to stay alive. Some of these processes are like yours. Others may have different names but achieve the similar results. The three main plant life processes are cellular respiration, photosynthesis, and transpiration. Drag each description to the correct process
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Converts food to usable energy
Important part of the water cycle
Produces food for the plant
Pulls water up from the roots to the
leaves
Releases carbon dioxide into the air
Requires chlorophyll
Returns water to the air
Uses carbon dioxide and water
Uses oxygen

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