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    Plants obtain nutrients through photosynthesis using chlorophyll, carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. Green plants and algae are autotrophs as they produce their own food, while animals and fungi are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients from other organisms. Photosynthesis occurs primarily in leaves.

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    Plants obtain nutrients through photosynthesis using chlorophyll, carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. Green plants and algae are autotrophs as they produce their own food, while animals and fungi are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients from other organisms. Photosynthesis occurs primarily in leaves.

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    Plants obtain nutrients through photosynthesis using chlorophyll, carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. Green plants and algae are autotrophs as they produce their own food, while animals and fungi are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients from other organisms. Photosynthesis occurs primarily in leaves.

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    Nutrition in plants

    Important points

     Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals are essential


    components of food, these components are called nutrients
     Humans and animals are dependent directly or indirectly on plants for food
     Nutrition is the mode of taking food by an organism and its utilisation by
    the body
     Green plants are called autotrophs as they prepare their own food from
    simple substances
     Animals and most other organisms are called heterotrophs as they take in
    ready-made food prepared by the plants
     The synthesis of food in plants occurs in leaves
     Photosynthesis can be carried out in presence of chlorophyll, sunlight,
    carbon dioxide, and water
     Complex chemical substances like carbohydrates are the products of
    photosynthesis
     Pitcher plants and Venus flytraps are insectivorous plants
     Fungi derive nutrition from dead and decaying matters they are called
    saprotrophs

    Question Answers

    Q1:Differentiate between nutrients and nutrition.

    Ans: Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals are essential components
    of food, these components are called nutrients, but Nutrition is the mode of taking
    food by an organism and its utilisation by the body.

    Q2:Differentiate between autotrophs and heterotrophs.

    Ans: Green plants are called autotrophs as they prepare their own food from simple
    substances, but animals and most other organisms are called heterotrophs as they
    take in ready-made food prepared by the plants

    Q3: Explain the food factory of plants.


    Ans:
    Leaves are called food factory of plants, as the synthesis of food takes place in leaves
    of plants. Water and minerals present in soil are absorbed by roots and transported
    to leaves via stem. Carbon dioxide from air is taken in through tiny pores on surface
    of leaves called stomata.

    Q 4: What is the function of stomata in leaf of a plant?

    Ans: Stomata are the tiny pores present on the surface of leaves which helps in
    exchange of gases, the pores in stomata are surrounded by guard cells.

    Q5: Define photosynthesis along with the equation for the same.
    Ans:

    Photosynthesis is the food manufacturing process of green plants containing


    chlorophyll, in presence of sunlight, with the help of carbon dioxide and water to
    synthesise carbohydrates. The equation for the process is as follow:
    Carbon dioxide + water —————> carbohydrate + Oxygen

    Q 6: How would you test the presence of starch in leaves?

    Ans:
    Take a potted plant which has been exposed to sunlight and pluck a leave from the
    plant. Then boil it in water for 5 min to soften it and then place the leave in a test
    tube containing alcohol ,place the test tube in a beaker containing water gently heat
    the beaker till the alcohol dissolves in the chlorophyll and the leaves loses its green
    colour. Now wash the leaf with water and then place it on a plate and add a few
    drops of iodine solution the parts that turn blue black show the

    Q 7: Whether food is made in all parts of a plant or only in certain parts? Explain.

    Ans:
    Only certain parts of plant like leaves have green pigment called chlorophyll. So
    Leaves are called the food factories of plants. Besides leaves, photosynthesis also
    takes place in other green parts of the plant like in green stems and green branches.
    The desert plants have scale or spine like leaves to reduce loss of water by
    transpiration. These plants have green stems which carry out the process of
    photosynthesis.

    Q8: What is cell?


    Ans:
    The body of living organisms are made of tiny units called cells, therefore Cell are
    called the building blocks of living organism. Cells can be seen only under the
    microscope. Some organisms are made of single cell they are called Unicellular. Ex.
    Amoeba, Paramecium etc. While others are made of multicells and are called
    multicellular. Ex. man, tree etc.

    Q9: What is the cell membrane?


    Ans:
    The cell is enclosed by a thin outer boundary, called the cell membrane Many cells
    have a distinct, centrally located spherical structure called the nucleus. The nucleus
    is surrounded by a jelly-like substance called cytoplasm.

    Q10: What do you mean by parasitic nutrition?

    Ans:
    The mode of by which parasitic organism get and synthesize their food is called
    parasitic nutrition. Example Cucuta. It does not have chlorophyll; it takes readymade
    food from the plant on which it is climbing. The plant on which it climbs is called a
    host. In a parasitic nutrition only one of the partners is benefited and other is not.

    Q11: What do you mean by Symbiosis?

    Ans:
    Symbiosis is the type of nutrition in which two different kinds of organisms depend
    on each other for their nutrition. In this both the organisms are benefitted by each
    other e.g., lichen is a symbiotic association between algae and fungi. In this one alga
    and one fungus live together and remain in symbiotic relationship.
    Q 12: Distinguish between a parasite and a saprotrophs.

    Ans

    Parasites Saprotrophs
    1. A parasite takes readymade a. They secrete the digestive
    food from the organism on juices on the matter they live
    which it feeds. and convert it into a solution
    2. They feed on a living and then absorb it.
    organism. b. They feed on dead and
    3. The organism on which it decaying organism .
    feeds is called host. c. They do not feed on a living
    4. It deprives the host of valuable organism.
    nutrients d. There is no host at all.

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