Nutrition in plants

Topics Included:
• Nutrition in Plants
(i) Autotrophic Nutrition
(ii) Heterotrophic Nutrition
a. Saprophytic Mode of Nutrition
b. Parasitic Mode of Nutrition
• Require food/energy for organisms
• Photosynthesis
• Stomata
• Chlorophyll

1. Nutrition in plants Science

2. Plants Animals FOOD Carbohydrates Proteins Fats Vitamins Minerals Nutrients

3. The process of utilization of food by an animal or a plant to obtain energy for growth and development is known as Nutrition . Auto = self Trophos = nourishment Heteros = other Trophos = nourishment Auto trophic Nutrition Hetero trophic Nutrition

4. Carbon dioxide Water Sunlight Carbohydrates Oxygen Mode of Nutrition: Photosynthesis

5. Mode of Nutrition: Photosynthesis

6. To synthesize proteins, plants need Nitrogen. But, from where do the plants obtain nitrogen? C 6 H 12 O 6 Carbohydrates Proteins

7. Nitrogen NH 4 + Bacteria converts Nitrogen into a usable form

8. Mode of Nutrition: Heterotrophic Plants which do not have chlorophyll, can not prepare their own food

9. Mode of Nutrition: Heterotrophic

10. These plants are called Insectivorous

11. What are these organisms called? Fungi

12. Mode of Nutrition: Saprotrophic These organisms get their food from dead and decaying matter in the form of solution.

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