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Photosynthesis is one process that occurs in leaves.
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A reaction in living things that turns sugar and oxygen into carbon dioxide?
The process is called photosynthesis. It occurs in most green plants (mainly in the leaves).Simplistically: Plants use atmospheric carbon dioxide and combine it with water in the presence of sunlight to produce glucose (sugars) and water.The plants then use the sugars to "fuel" metabolic and growth functions; during the process of "respiration" the sugars are broken down releasing energy and oxygen - the latter is expelled by the plant.The chemical process is as follows:6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy = C6H12O6 + 6O2See the related question link below for more information
Plants are green because they contain?
Plants look green because inside the leaves there are chloroplasts. Chloroplasts are green and they are there to help make energy for the plant using the sun to make glucose (energy). In autumn/fall the leaves dont need the chloroplasts because there is less sun so the plant turns red/yellow/brown. A plant also contains xanthophyll and other things that are coloured yellow/red/brown, the xanthophyll is usually covered up by the chloroplast. So when there is no chloroplasts the Xanthophyll can change the leaf colour.
Why variegated leaves accumulate less food then non variegated leaves?
variegated plant cells are deficient in chlorophyll hence these are not capable of carrying out photosynthesis so efficiently, hence less vigorous.
Can you explain how the ways in which plants and animals get their energy differ?
I learned this in a foreign language so I don't know the names of the things I write about.So basically, what makes the plant green is what gathers sunlight and turns it into energy.If you would get your relevant organs to accept it you could add this to your body, shave your head and have a green scalp :)F.X.The rare plants that aren't green can be gathering nutrition from rocks, then moss grows on these plants to use it's... green stuff to trade energy for nutritionThat's just SOME of the basics, not all and purely by memory.
Why are plants green?
AnswerPlants appear green because their cells contain chloroplasts, which contains chlorophyll ,then gives plants green pigment...in order to survive. Chlorophyll reflects green and yellow while it absorbs other lights for energy (red, orange, blue, and violet). More Information:I think the question was more "why are plants green and not some other colour" rather than "why do I see plants as green". The real answer to the question would then be nobody really knows. Technically because the sun emits yellow rays, plants would most benefit from being purple. in ancient times there were purple photosynthetic bacterium that photosynthesized with retinal, a chemical in your eyes, so most scientist are confused by this.Plants are green because they have the substances that are not necessarily green called chloroplasts. Because of this pigment the plant can absorb an assortment of colors, so basically plants can absorb almost every color on the visible light spectrum except green. That is why we perceive plants to be green because their pigment does not allow them to absorb this colorChlorophyll, (photosystem II and photosystem I), are based on the element Magnesium, and the structure is analogous to hemoglobin in animals which is based on iron. Iron compounds don't absorb red light, so you see red. Magnesium based compounds don't absorb the middle spectrum of visible light, so you see green. reds which are longer wavelength and blues which are shorter wavelength are absorbed in plants for energy to drive metabolic processes, and that energy turns water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates. So plants physically have no choice but to be green, it was not a selection of evolution. Cloroplasts are endosymbiotic structures, they have two membranes and their own prokaryotic DNA...they closely resemble cyanobacteria that did develop upward of 2 billion years before plants in a high carbon dioxide atmosphere. That suggests that as carbon dioxide levels fell that the structure of a plant was more successful for this phototrophic organism to hide from the oxygen. So, that's where the chlorophyll came from in plants, and how come plants are green.AnswerPlants are green because archaea are purple. Archaea came first, photosynthesizing using purple pigment rhodopsin. Plants evolved green pigment chlorophyll so they could use the leftover light that wasn't being used by archaea. After the Earth cooled, the archaea could not survive as well, but the plants could, so the green plants became the most popular form of life.
How do coloured plants get their food?
Plants get their color from the sunlight. The sunlight activates the chlorophyll located in the leaves of plants. Chlorophyll captures the sunlight which begins the photosynthesis process that turns the leaves green in plants.
What is the process by which carbon circulates around the earth as plants remove carbon from the atmosphere and animals add carbon to the atmosphere?
The process is called photosynthesis. It is caused by sunlight and performed by chlorophyl (the stuff that causes leaves to be green). The combination of sun light and chlorophyl turns carbon dioxyde into oxygen. Only green plants can do this.
What causes yellowing leaves on a Rhododendron?
I think it's a deficiency of nitrates, which help plants to produce chlorophyll, and which is the pigment that turns leaves green, and without it, leaves can become yellow.
What produces food for a plant?
For most plants (green plants) it is a process called photosynthesiswhich turns water and nutrients from the soil into chlorofil when exposed to sunlight.
What process turns leaves into soil?
Decomposition.
What color of dye does leaves make?
it turns them green
What makes green vegetables green?
Plants are green because of something called chlorophyll, which is a chemical that allows plants to capture energy from the sun and turn it into food There are two types of chlorophyl. But the one that turns things green is chlorophyl A.
Why are leaves yellow instead of green when grown in the dark?
Because - lack of sunlight prevents the leaves from making chlorophyll - the chemical that turns leaves green.
What happen when green leaves boiled in water?
turns pale
What is chororphyll and what does it do?
Chlorophyll is a green pigment found in leaves. It turns solar energy, carbon dioxide, and water into glucose and oxygen. Glucose is a sugar that plants use as food.
Why are most leaves on trees green?
Because the photosynthesis makes sugar and turns it green Chlorophyll gives plants their green colour. There are other pigments in the leaves too, such as xanthophylls (reds) and carotenoids (yellows and oranges). The combination's of the different pigments make different shades of green. Plants look green because they obtain energy from the sun using a particular part of the light spectrum, mainly the red and infra red wavelengths.
An analogy for chloroplast?
The chloroplast is like a paint that's green and turns the plants green in the painting. Because the chloroplast turns plants green, and that's why the plants are green, it's like a color paint for your painting.
