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Hi everyone, I'm completed a study guide for Biology, and ran into a few questions I don't understand. If you know the answer, please let me know!

2.) Where does gas exchange occur in plants and in animals?

3.) What does this equation represent? CO2 ---> C6H12O6

4.) What is the primary means by which plants obtain water from their environment?

5.) Why do plants have accessory pigments?

What is the structure of a leaf that relates to photosynthesis?

1.)The stoma complex regulates the exchange of gases and water vapor between the outside air and the interior of the leaf. Typically, the stomata are more numerous over the abaxial (lower) epidermis than the adaxial (upper) epidermis.

2.) Photosynthesis, uses light energy and carbon dioxide to make triose phospates (G3P). G3P is generally considered the prime end-product of photosynthesis. It can be used as an immediate food nutrient, or combined and rearranged to form monosaccharide sugars, such as glucose, which can be transported to other cells, or packaged for storage as insoluble polysaccharides such as starch.

3.)Xylem cells move water and nutrient solutions upwards towards other plant organs from the roots and fine root hairs. Living roots cells actively absorb water in the absence of transpiration pull via osmosis creating root pressure. There are times when plants do not have transpiration pull, usually due to lack of light or other environmental elements. Water in the plant tissues may move to the roots to assist in passive absorption.

5.)Leaves are normally green in color, which comes from chlorophyll found in plastids in the chlorenchyma cells. Plants that lack chlorophyll cannot photosynthesize.

In cold autumns they sometimes change color, and turn yellow, bright orange or red as various accessory pigments (carotenoids and anthocyanins) are revealed when the tree responds to cold and reduced sunlight by curtailing chlorophyll production

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