Unit 2 - How Plants Use Glucose
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- Created on: 07-05-15 11:29
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- How plants use glucose
- For respiration
- Plants manufacture glucose in their leaves
- They then use some of the glucose for repiration
- Engery release enables them to convert the rest of the glucose into various other useful substances, which they can use to build new cells and grow
- To produce some other substances they also need to gather a few minerals from the soil
- Making cell walls
- Glucose is converted into cellulose for making strong cell walls
- Making proteins
- Glucose is combined with nitrate ions to make amino acids which are made into proteins
- Stored in seeds
- Glucose is turned into lipids for storing in seeds
- Seeds also store a lot of starch
- Stored as starch
- Glucose is turned into starch and stored in roots, stems and leaves, and used for when photosynthesis isn't happening
- Starch is insoluble which makes it much better for storing than glusoce
- For respiration
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