Flowering Plants: Nutrition

These flashcards cover the nutritional requirements of flowering plants, including macronutrients, micronutrients, and various adaptations.

Macronutrients

Essential elements required by plants in larger quantities, including carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and sulfur.

Micronutrients

Trace elements required by plants in small amounts (0.1% or less), necessary for various plant functions.

Heterotrophic plants

Plants that do not produce their own food and rely on other organisms; an example is the Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora).

Mycorrhizal Associations

Symbiotic relationships between fungi and plant roots that help plants obtain mineral nutrients from the soil.

Carnivorous plants

Plants that have evolved to capture and digest animals, often in nutrient-poor environments, to obtain essential nutrients like nitrogen.

Fixed nitrogen

Nitrogen that has been converted into a form that plants can use, often provided by symbiotic relationships with bacteria.

Symbiosis with cyanobacteria

A mutually beneficial relationship between certain plants and cyanobacteria, allowing plants to thrive in nitrogen-poor environments.

Limiting factors

Environmental conditions that restrict the growth and survival of organisms, such as the availability of light or nutrients.