AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Grasses are green plants which synthesize food (carbohydrate) in presence of sun light in the process of photosynthesis. That’s why grass is called producers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Like all plants, grasses are producers. Remember that a producer is a living thing that makes its own food. All food chains begin with producers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Plants make their own food through a process called photosynthesis. Using the energy from the sun, water and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and nutrients, they chemically make their own food. Since they make or produce their own food they are called producers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Grasses are in the magnoliophyte division because they are flowering plants, and are in the liliopsida class, which are the monocotyledons. Grasses are in the subclass commelinidae and the order cyperales. There are at least 2, 239 different types of grasses identified by scientists.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer and Explanation: Some examples of producers in the food chain include green plants, small shrubs, fruit, phytoplankton, and algae. Actually, all plants are producers.