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What kind of energy is stored by plants when they take in light energy from the sun?
The light energy absorbed by plants is converted into chemical energy by chlorophyll. The energy is used to create a chemical called ATP, which stores and transports energy to cells.
How do cells acquire food energy?
Cells aquire food energy through a process called cellular respiration. This can be aerobic (with Oxygen as the final electron acceptor) or anaerobic (with some other organic molecule like pyruvate as the final electron acceptor). Aerobic respiration can be further broken down into the steps of 1. Glycolysis 2. Pyruvate Oxidation 3. Krebs Cycle 4. Electron Transport Chain It can also take place as photosynthesis but that is a slightly different mechanism Anaerobic Respiration can take place where there is no oxygen available(such as insidee muscles). This is called fermentation(yes the same kind we have to thank for alcohol...God bless anaerobic bacteria).
What do leaves collect from the sun?
Leaves need sunlight for growth and also for nutrients. They take sunlight or sun energy for photosynthesis.
Which sentence best describes how water helps living things generate energy?
Chemical reactions within cells take place in the presence of water.
What two things do the roots take in?
water and nutrients
Why is food a source of energy?
Food energy is energy obtained from food through cellular respiration, which is the set of the metabolic reactions and processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert biochemical energy from nutrients into adenosine triphosphate.
What is cellular about?
Cellular respiration is the set of the metabolic reactions ad processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert biochemical energy from nutrients. It is the process of oxidizing food molecules.
What does the mithchondria do?
Mitochondria are responsible for breaking down nutrients. They also take in nutrients and are responsible for making energy for cells.
How long does it take to turn calories into energy?
After eating, it typically takes 6-8 hours for the body to fully convert food into energy. The process involves digestion, absorption of nutrients, and transportation of molecules to cells. Once in the cells, nutrients are converted into energy through processes like glycolysis and the citric acid cycle.
Cellular respiration is about what?
Cellular respiration is the set of the metabolic reactions ad processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert biochemical energy from nutrients. It is the process of oxidizing food molecules.
Why does your body take in oxygen and transport it to your cells?
Your body takes in oxygen through the respiratory system to help produce energy through a process called cellular respiration. Oxygen is transported via red blood cells in the bloodstream to all the cells in your body. These cells use oxygen to convert nutrients into energy that the body needs to function properly.
How is food and energy provided to skin cells?
Intergumentary SystemThe nutrients are delivered via the blood through the expansive capillary network that serves all the cells of the body. Where there is no cell to capillary contact then the nutrients, including dissolved oxygen, must diffuse through and or around the cells of the tissue. this is called ECF extra-cellular fluid, which has just about all the nutrient and blood properties as blood plasma. Any cells that do not have access to this nutrient supply will die, as in the case of the outermost layers(20 - 100) of the integumentary system, the squamous epithelium. When the nutrients arrive at the cell then the cell's metabolic processes will generate the energy it needs..skin cells are not high energy cells unlike brain.
Why do Cells take in nutrients?
Cells require amino acids, vitamins, minerals, glucose, and fatty acids. Cells need glucose for energy, amino acids to make proteins, fatty acids to make the cell membrane and hormones, etc. Basically, the cells need these items to maintain itself in energy, regulation, and structure; just like how you need food to maintain your energy, regulate your body's needs, and reinforce it's structure.
why cell wall important?
this is so that the cell can keep its shape, hence an animal cell being rectangular, and so that the nucleus can be protected.
What are the nutrients and the materials cells take in and products that are released during photosynthesis?
What are the nutrients and the materials cells take in and products that are released during photosynthesis?
From what do trees grow?
Trees grow from the nutrients they absorb from the soil, water they take up through their roots, and sunlight they convert into energy through photosynthesis.
What do producers take energy from?
Producer get their energy by the nutrients and the sun it gets.
