How plants use glucose Flashcards
Name 5 ways plants use glucose?
Respiration. Making cell wall. Making proteins. Stored in seeds. Stored at starch.
Where do plants manufacture glucose?
In their leaves.
Glucose is stored in the leaves they then use some of the glucose for what?
Respiration.
Respiration releases what?
Energy.
Respiration releases energy which enables what?
Them to convert the rest of the glucose into other useful substances.
The rest of the glucose can do what?
Build new cells.
Grow.
To produce some of these substances they also need to gather what?
Few minerals from the soil.
How do you make cell walls?
Glucose is converted into cellulose for making strong cell walls , especially in a rapidly growing plant.
To make proteins glucose is combined with what?
Nitrate ions (absorbed by the soil)
Glucose combing with nitrate ions makes what?
Amino acids.
Which are then made into proteins.
What is glucose turned into for storing seeds?
Lipids. (Fats and oils)
What do sunflower seeds contain?
A lot of oil.
Cooking oil and margarine.
What do seeds also store?
Starch.
Algae also uses what?
Glucose to make cellulose for cell walls.
Fats and oils for storage.
Amino acids for protein.
Where is glucose turned into starch?
Roots.
Stem.
Leaves.
