Inside the leaves,chlorophyll gets sunlight and uses its energy to change water and carbon dioxide into glucose, a type of sugar that plants use as food. The most amazing part? The only other thing made in this
A. Chlorophill is a kind of sugar and plants use it as food for energy and growing. B. I eaves turn red because surlight and the cool nights of auturn turn glucose into a red cnlour C. Meran't wee wellew ae oranve konws in summmet because the two polours are nut in leaves....
During summer days, leaves make more glucose than the plant needs for energy and growth. The excess is turned into starch and stored until needed. As the daylight gets shorter in the autumn, plants begin to shut down their food production. Many changes occur in the leaves of deciduous trees...
What is the process by which plants and animals use oxygen and carbohydrates to produce carbon dioxide, water, and energy? Why do body cells use glucose as metabolic fuel? Why don't they use another biomolecule? How does the cell utilize ATP generated by respiration?
Plants should be able to sense not only glucose but also other hexoses, such as fructose and disaccharides (sucrose, maltose and others). In this Botanical Briefing we outline recent discoveries in this field, with emphasis on arabidopsis and cereals. The use of transgenic plants and mutants to...
Plants use sunlight to turn water and $$ C O _ { 2 } $$ into glucose. Glucose is a kind of sugar. Using it as food, plants get energy and grow. Plants using sunlight to turn water and CO_{2} into sugar is called photosynthesis. Chlorophyll helps photosynthesis. It gives plants ...
However, in addition to synthesizing glucose, plants also need to make amino acids, vitamins and other cellular components to survive. In the coastal bogs favored by Venus flytraps, the soil is acidic, and minerals and other nutrients are scarce. Most plants can't survive in this environment ...
Carrots can be harvested any time after they are large enough to use. Carrot seed saving Carrots are biennials; they will flower in their second season of growth. Leave a few plants in the garden until the second season to produce seeds. Allow plants to die and dry in place then seeds ...
Modification of plants to change their response to the environment, disease or pesticides. For example, tomatoes can gain fungal resistance by adding chitinases to their genome. A chitinase breaks down chitin, which forms the cell wall of a fungus cell. The pesticide Roundup kills all plants, ...
(a) Why do cells use fat and starch for long-term energy storage instead of ATP molecules? (b) Describe the transfer of energy from the glucose in food, to ATP, to a cell's movement and other functions. Why do plants produce far more sugar than they need? why do...