Photosynthesis produces glucose in plant leaves which is transported to storage organs through phloem vessels. At certain times of day, gas exchange through stomata stops even when open due to equal rates of photosynthesis and respiration. Water moves through a plant via root hairs, cells, and xylem vessels through the processes of osmosis and active transport.
Photosynthesis produces glucose in plant leaves which is transported to storage organs through phloem vessels. At certain times of day, gas exchange through stomata stops even when open due to equal rates of photosynthesis and respiration. Water moves through a plant via root hairs, cells, and xylem vessels through the processes of osmosis and active transport.
Photosynthesis produces glucose in plant leaves which is transported to storage organs through phloem vessels. At certain times of day, gas exchange through stomata stops even when open due to equal rates of photosynthesis and respiration. Water moves through a plant via root hairs, cells, and xylem vessels through the processes of osmosis and active transport.
Photosynthesis produces glucose in plant leaves which is transported to storage organs through phloem vessels. At certain times of day, gas exchange through stomata stops even when open due to equal rates of photosynthesis and respiration. Water moves through a plant via root hairs, cells, and xylem vessels through the processes of osmosis and active transport.
Q. Describe how the products of photosynthesis are carried from the leaves of a plant to an underground storage organs. Ans. Manufactured food e.q. glucose mode during photosynthesis in the leaves passes into the phloem vessels by active transport and diffusion. Excess glucose formed is converted to sucrose, which is carried by the phloem Sieve tubes to the cells of storage organs underground stems, Suekose like the roots or is stored or converted to starch depending on plant. Q. Explain why, arest certain times of day. there is no movement of oxygen or carbon dioxide through stomata, even though they are open Ans. In the night. Only respiration occurs. and leaves take in oxygen and release Carbon dioxide. At the break of dawn.photo. -Synthesis begins in the leaf cells. The movement of carbon dioxide out of the leaf slows down and eventually stops because carbon dioxide produced is absorbed in increasing, amounts by the palisade mesophyll cells for photosynthesis. At the same time, the absorption of oxygen from the air slows down and stops because oxygen is produced In increasing amounts by leaf photosynthesis. For a brief moment, the movement of gases in and out of the leaves stops altogether. This is the compensation point, where the state of photosynthesis and respiration are equal and compensate each other. Compemation point is also reached again at dusk when the light intensity becomes increasingly lower. Q. Describe the path taken by water from leaf until it is the moment it enters a released through stomata. Ans. The mesophyll of the leaf has many intercellular spaces among the mesophyll cells. Water continually moves out of the mesophyll cells to form a thin film over their Surface Water evaporates in to the intercellular spaces and from there it diffuses through the stomata to the drier air outside the leat. Expt, Bxpr Q. Experiment to show through a tissue movement of water Ans. Procedure: 1) Prepare three equal sized and shaped peeled potatoes, cut out a central Cone Cavity in each. 11) Cook one potato for 3 minutes in boiling water. 111) Place all three potatoes in separate Shallow dishes containing plain water. I Sprinkle Sugar crystals in the central core Cavity of the boiled potato and one of the uncooked potatoes. The Control will be without Sugar. v) Leave for 12 hours and observe any changes in appearance of the central core contents. Observation! A suger-Solution forms by drawing water from the tissues around the Sugar crystals, water being provided by osmosis through living and not by the dead Cooked potato tissue. Water levels in the dish have fallen due to transport across the living potato tissue. TH MOVEMENT Describe and explain how water moves into a plant root. on Ans, Absorption of water from the soil takes place mainly in the wone of root hairs. Each root hair is fine tubular outgrowth of epidermal cell, extending into the spaces between Soil particles, close to the soil water. Water moves into root hairs by osmosis. The sap in hair has a higher concentration of sugars and mineral ions Salts than the soil water. These two solutions are separated by a semi- -permeable membrane so water enters a root hair by osmosis. lov a root Water also enters root hairs by active tramport when the concentration of dissolved sugars and mineral salts in the call sap is higher than that in the soil water. As the name implies, active transport requires energy which is provided by aerobic respiration, The entry of water in to the root hair cells dilutes the cell sap so that it is now more dilute than the Sap in the next cell. Hence water passes by osmosis from the root hair cell to the inner cell. This proces Continues until the water enters the xylem vessels and. moves up the plant
