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While at home over the summer break your Great Uncle Sid starts complaining abou

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Question

While at home over the summer break your Great Uncle Sid starts complaining about maintaining the plants in his yard. He is contemplating eliminating all his yard plants and asphalting over everything. What compelling fact or facts could you give your Great Uncle Sid about the importance of green plants to our lives? Select one: a. Green plants are able to make their own food. b. Green plants form the base of food chains so ultimately we are all dependent on them. c. Green plants produce oxygen, which we need for respiration. d. Green plants reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, which counteracts the greenhouse effect. e. All of the above are compelling and accurate facts about green plants. Why do most plants appear green? Select one: a. Green plants absorb the green wavelength of light b. Green plants absorb the red and blue wavelengths of light c. Green plants reflect the green wavelength of light d. It is just chance they are green e. Plants have green genes as opposed to blue genes Why do pant leaves' have veins? Select one: a. To carry oxygen b. To carry water c. To carry glucose d. A and B e. B and C Your gut contains a lot of different bacterial species that also require energy from metabolizing glucose. What type of glucose metabolism are these bacteria carrying out? Select one: a. Alcoholic fermentation b. Glycolysis c. Transcription d. Cellular respiration e. Photosynthesis

Explanation / Answer

Q 22.Answer is option e.

Because plants make their food with the help of photo synthesis.

plants are called producers in food chain on which all other tropic level depends.

green plants are maintaining the oxygen and carbon dioxide balance in atmosphere.

Q23.option is C .

green plants appears green because cholrophyll a,b reflect green colour.

Q24.option is e

plants have veins because it helps in transport of water and food in the form of starch which is chain of glucose.

Q25.option is A.

bacterias perform alcoholic fermentation in which glucose gets converted in to alcohol in absence of oxygen .