Life Processes: 5

  • What type of nutrition is shown by insectivorous plants?

Venus flytrap → Green → Chlorophyll

it states that venus flytrap is autotrophic because photosynthesis occurs.

→ insects (Heterotrophic) → Carnivorous plant

VENUS FLYTRAP IS PARTIALLY HETEROTROPHIC

  • CYNOBACTERIA: also called blue green algae

  the green word in blue green algae states that it has chlorophyll → photosynthesis → CYNOBACTERIA IS AUTOTROPHIC

AUTOTROPHIC NUTRITION IN PLANTS

  • photosynthetic autotrophic nutrition

  photosynthesis require   * CO2   * H2O   * Sunlight   * Chlorophyll

The product of photosynthesis

  • Food (Glucose- C6H12O6)
  • Oxygen
  • Water
  1. Does photosynthesis occur in all parts of plants?

   → no it only occurs in green parts of plants.

  1. Where does it occur?

   → leaf cells → “chloroplast”

Chlorophyll

→ Green pigment which absorbs light

→ Present in chloroplast

\ LEAF CELLS → “Mesophyll cells of the leaf”

  • The mesophyll cells have chloroplast which does photosynthesis.

  XYLEM- Water transport

        PHLOEM- Food transport

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