PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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To make food for us
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To make food for themselves
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They’re bored and have nothing else to do
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -They use the process of photosynthesis to transform water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide into oxygen, and simple sugars that the plant uses as fuel. These primary producers form the base of an ecosystem and fuel the next trophic levels. Without this process, life on Earth as we know it would not be possible.
Detailed explanation-2: -They make it themselves! Plants are called autotrophs because they can use energy from light to synthesize, or make, their own food source.
Detailed explanation-3: -Plants produce their own food (glucose) by a process called photosynthesis. Photosynthesis takes place mainly in the leaves. During photosynthesis the plant uses chlorophyll, sunlight energy, carbon dioxide (from the atmosphere) and water to make glucose.
Detailed explanation-4: -Plants “eat” sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce their own food and food for the millions of other organisms dependent on them. A molecule, chlorophyll (Chl), is crucial for this process, since it absorbs sunlight.