Blogpost #3 (by Maya Lewis)

The Kohlrabi plant has grown considerably since it was first planted in the garden. The plant has a brownish tinge to the edges of the leaves, but overall the plant has a healthy green color. Kohlrabi participates in the movement of water in the biosphere by using transpiration. Transpiration is evidence that the kohlrabi is receiving water and therefore growing. Kohlrabi also participates in the carbon cycle because the growth seen in the plant is dependent on photosynthesis and the intake of carbon dioxide. Without this intake, the plant would not survive. In the carbon cycle, the process of photosynthesis allows the Kohlrabi to take in carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and combine that with water. From that point, with the added power of the sun, the Kohlrabi turns it into sugars and oxygen. Kohlrabi is also a part of the nitrogen cycle. Nitrifying bacteria in the soil turn ammonia into nitrite and then after, into nitrate. This process is called nitrification. Plants can take up any of those compounds from the soil of which will be used in the formation of both plant and animal proteins. Our Kohlrabi plant most likely took up a plentiful amount of these compounds from the soil in which it's growing, which would have created proteins for itself.