The Plant Kindom
Photosynthesis
- The food that plant need is made by a process called photosynthesis. This is an extremely complicated chemical process, which can be shown by a simple formula.
- The formula (shown above) does not show the many energy changes or the stages of photosynthesis, however .Simply, the plants combine carbon-dioxide from the air with water to make suger.
- This suger is stored as carbohydrate,and is used later by the plant to provide energy for growth and flower production.
Plant cell
- There are two main difference between plant and animal cell. Plant cell contain green chlorophyll and they have think, rigid cell walls, made of a substance called cellulose. Plant do not need the thinner flexible wall found in animal cell because they do not move in the same way. Inside the wall, a plant with a nuccleus embedded in it, and there often large space called vacuoles, filled with a liquid called cell sap. The plant is kept in shape by the pressure of the sap on the cell walls rather like the shape of a balloon is maintained by the air inside. These cell build up into tissues which have different task in plant