Corn Essay Video Assignment:

With your group, you will collaborate to create a

video in which you present your Corn Essay using a
combination of narration, images/photos, notes
written live on a white board as you present, and
PowerPoint slides or similar presentation format to
describe what is happening through the
developmental stages shown in this time-lapse video
showing corn seed germination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFCdAgeMGOA
All narration used in the video must be done by
a group member narration in movie clips
found on the internet will not be accepted for
credit toward properly using the words in the
assignments word list.
Corn Essay Background Information
To help you prepare for the corn essay you will
need to read over the following parts of the text,
some diagrams, some text. Also, recall that I pointed
out pages through the fall term that you would want
to make sure to remember, Mader textbook pages
like p 71/232, 121, and 147.
Further, this video clip and images of a germinating
corn seed will be necessary in visualizing the process
you will be asked to write about and narrate in your
video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFCdAgeMGOA
and images
1) https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/603/fla
shcards/1672603/jpg/corn_seed_structure134290640

3950.jpg
2) http://2.bp.blogspot.com/0SDRuRN1ae8/UdBojWPEsmI/AAAAAAAAB9Y/5OhzqM
eXwUI/s1470/4-twig.gif
You will be describing some topics/concepts we
have not fully discussed in class this year you
will have to learn some things on your own to
include in the video narration and
presentation.
Mader Textbook pages for important reference:
p 444, 450-453, Fig. 24.1, 24.8, 24.13 meristem
locations.
p 446, Fig. 24.3 monocot (corn) seed and organ
structures
p.447, Fig. 24.4 a
p 449-450, xylem and phloem
p 451-452 cell types, meristem, stages of cell
development
p 453, apical and primary meristem
p 455, monocot (corn) stem cell types/structure,
24.15
p 459, leaf structure, cell and tissue types
p 465, corn plant nutrition, 25.1
p 490, Fig. 26.11 b, early corn embryo/seedling
development after germination

Advanced Biology: Molecular, Cell and Organismal Biology

Culminating Essay and Video
Time to put it all together. Use your notes, use your textbook, use online resources.
Water uptake by a corn seed causes the embryo to produce the hormone gibberellin which
is secreted by the embryo, diffusing to the alleurone cell layer inside the seed coat. This
causes the cells of the alleurone layer to produce alpha-amylase which digests the
endosperm starch stores into soluble sugars for use by the growing embryo. Assuming
that gibberellin acts much the same way as the steroid hormone estrogen does in
chickens oviduct cells, but stimulating the production of alpha amylase, write an essay
using the following terms, and any others that apply, to describe the chain of events
starting with the absorption of the gibberellin by the alleurone cells:
To the production of amylase by the alleurone cells,
To the secretion of alpha amylase by the alleurone cells to the starch storage cells of the
seeds endosperm.
To the final destination and uses of the solubilized sugars released by the degraded
starch
Ending with the growth and development of the young corn plant, including the role of
photosynthesis, respiration, and anabolic/synthetic pathways in its growth and
development. The essay ends when you have a fully self-sufficient corn plant seedling.
UNDERLINE EACH WORD FROM THE LIST WHERE YOU USE IT IN YOUR
ESSAY ONLY UNDERLINE THE FIRST INSTANCE WHERE YOU USE IT AND
THEN USE THEM WELL! FULL CREDIT FOR WORD USAGE INCLUDES USING
THE WORD IN SUCH A WAY THAT ITS MEANING IS CLEAR.
FEEL FREE TO ADD YOUR OWN WORDS TO MAKE THE ESSAY COMPLETE!
hormone receptor complex
adapter protein
regulatory region
RNA polymerase
coding region
transcription
promoter region
H-Bonds
RNA nitrogenous bases
adenine
guanine
cytosine
uracil
DNA
gene
chromosome
termination
messenger RNA
transfer RNA

ribosomal RNA
nucleolus
nucleus
cytoplasm
rough endoplasmic reticulum
endoplasmic reticulum lumen
alpha amylase
ribosomal proteins
guanine triphosphate capping
poly A tail
introns
exons
expressed regions
codon
start codon
golgi apparatus
golgi vesicles
alpha amyalase
AUG

methionine
transfer RNA
P site
NH3 terminal end of polypeptide
amino acid
signal polypeptide
signal recognition particle
carboxyl-terminal end of polypeptide
anticodon
charging enzyme
peptidyl transferase
A site
ATP
elongation
termination
stop codon
signal peptide
signal peptidase
ER receptor protein
protein primary structure
protein secondary structure
protein tertiary structure
amylose
hydrolytic cleavage
polymer
glucose
water
mitochondria
respiration
photosynthesis
oxygen
carbon dioxide
ATP synthase
proton pump
cristae
chloroplast
chlorophyll
thylakoid
stroma
Calvin cycle
citric acid cycle
glycolysis
enzymes
synthesis/anabolic pathway
breakdown/catabolic pathway
carbon source for synthesis (of what, for what?)

stomata
embryo
leaf mesophyll
leaf air space
guard cells
coleoptile
young root
first true leaf
apical meristem
region of elongation
region of differentiation
region of cell division
cell elongation
cell differentiation
mitosis
leaf veins
epidermis
vascular tissue
xylem
phloem
endodermis
blue light
red light
vascular bundle
vascular cylinder