How can trees with only red leaves carry on photosynthesis?
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differnet colors in leaves are targted at different wavelengths or colors in the sunlight, like seaweed is brown and stuff like taht.
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A tree grows by photosynthesis: it combines carbon dioxide from the air with water, which it takes in through its roots, to produce glucose, which is converted into starch to be stored in the leaves. Minerals are also taken in through the roots which combine with glucose to produce amino acids, proteins and other stuffs that the tree needs e.g. phosphorus for DNA in the cell nucleus.\n\nThe equation for photosynthesis is:\n\n6CO2 + 6H2O -> C6H12O6 + 6O2\n\nWith research you should be able to find other equations for processes going on inside the tree.\n\nI have not described the first stages of the tree's life, i.e. germination. The increase in mass here is due to the uptake of water.
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Both speed up at high temperatures and slow down at low temperatures. Photosynthesis does have a maximum cutoff temperature (usually 30 C in temperate plants and I think 40 C in tropical C4 plants).
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B.\n\nCellular respiration uses Oxygen and releases CO2, and at Nighttime, Photosynthesis cannot occur(since there is a lack of light) and therefore cannot convert CO2 to O2, hence lowering the concentration
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Plants DO breathe oxygen, the same way we do. Respiration is the most effective energy producing process there is.\nPlants, however, can perform another process (photosynthesis) in which they take up CO2 and use the energy of sunlight to build up sugars and starches from this CO2. THEN they can use these starches in the process of respiration, the same way we do (we take sugars and "use" oxygen to take out the energy contained in them)\nSo the only difference betwen us and plants is that they make their own fuel out of CO2 , but we must eat it. But we both breathe oxygen in order to get the energy out of it.\nAs to why the don't breathe hydrogen... you'd have to ask god.... but normally when hydrogen combines with things it requires energy instead of giving rise to it, so it wouldn't be too advantageous\nSo it's not that we produce the CO2 so plants can live. Plants could live without animals, we're the parasites here hehehehe
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chloroplast contains pigments for capturing solar energy for photosynthesis.plant cells absorb light of visible spectrum that have wavelength between 400 to 700 nm. and uv radiation doesnt fall between it so plant cannot absorb this part of ligt rays. if a plant will be subjected only to uv rays then the plant will die.
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photoautotrophs (plants) reduce carbon, every other organism oxidizes it.  without photosynthesis, this world is dead.
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plants-through photosynthesis
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Photosynthesis uses the energy of light to make the sugar, glucose. A simple general equation for photosynthesis follows...\n\n      6 CO2 + 12 H2O  light → C6H12O6 + 6 O2 + 6 H2O\nCarbon Dioxide+Water+Light energy → Glucose+Oxygen+Water\n\nPhotosynthesis occurs in two stages. In the first phase light-dependent reactions or photosynthetic reactions (also called the Light reactions) capture the energy of light and use it to make high-energy molecules. During the second phase, the light-independent reactions (also called the Calvin-Benson Cycle, and formerly known as the Dark Reactions) use the high-energy molecules to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) and make the precursors of glucose.\n\nIn the light-dependent reactions the pigment chlorophyll absorbs light and loses an electron that travels down an electron transport chain producing the high energy molecules NADPH and ATP. The chlorophyll molecule regains its electron by taking one from water, a process that releases oxygen gas.\n\nIn the Light-independent or dark reactions the enzyme RuBisCO captures CO2 from the atmosphere and in a complex process called the Calvin-Benson cycle releases 3-carbon sugars which are later combined to form glucose.\n\nLight to chemical energy---\nThe light energy is converted to chemical energy using the light-dependent reactions. The products of the light dependent reactions are ATP from photophosphorylation and NADPH from photoreduction. Both are then utilized as an energy source for the Light independent reactions.\n\nZ scheme---\nIn plants, light dependent reactions occur in the thylakoid membranes of the chloroplasts and use light energy to synthesize ATP and NADPH. The light dependent reaction has two forms; cyclic and non-cyclic reaction. In the non-cyclic reaction, the photons are captured in the light-harvesting antenna complexes of photosystem II by chlorophyll and other accessory pigments (see diagram at right). When a chlorophyll molecule at the core of the photosystem II reaction center obtains sufficient excitation energy from the adjacent antenna pigments, an electron is transferred to the primary electron-acceptor molecule, Pheophytin, through a process called Photoinduced charge separation. These electrons are shuttled through an electron transport chain, the so called Z-scheme shown in the diagram, that initially functions to generate a chemiosmotic potential across the membrane. An ATP synthase enzyme uses the chemiosmotic potential to make ATP during photophosphorylation while NADPH is a product of the terminal redox reaction in the Z-scheme. The electron enters the Photosystem I molecule. The electron is emitted due to the light absorbed by the photosystem. A second electron carrier accepts the electron, which again is passed down lowering energies of electron acceptors. The energy created by the electron acceptors is used to move hydrogen ions across the thylakoid membrane into the lumen. The electron is used to reduce the co-enzyme NADH, which has functions in the light-independent reaction. The cyclic reaction is similar to that of the non-cyclic, but differs in the form that it only generates ATP and no reduced NADP (NADPH) is created. The cyclic reaction takes place only at photosystem I. Once the electron is displaced from the photosystem, the electron is passed down the electron acceptor molecules and returns back to photosystem I, from where si was emitted; hence the name cyclic reaction.\n\nWater photolysis---\nThe NADPH is the main reducing agent in chloroplasts, providing a source of energetic electrons to other reactions. Its production leaves chlorophyll with a deficit of electrons (oxidized), which must be obtained from some other reducing agent. The excited electrons lost from chlorophyll in photosystem I are replaced from the electron transport chain by plastocyanin. However, since photosystem II includes the first steps of the Z-scheme, an external source of electrons is required to reduce its oxidized chlor
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Molecules in plants consist mostly of a backbone of carbon atoms, generally also bonded to oxygen and hydrogen atoms (and, to a lesser degree, to atoms of nitrogen and other elements). Most of these molecules are not colored. For example, sugars and starches contain only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen and they are not colored. But some molecules are colored, such as chlorophyll which is green and responsible for the green color of foliage and leaves. The green color of chlorophyll is critical to our life on earth. Chlorophyll facilitates photosynthesis, converting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the oxygen we breathe. Chlorophyll appears green because it absorbs red light from sunlight and it is this absorbed energy which drives photosynthesis. So color in plants is more than decorative: it is essential to life.
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Most likely through photosynthesis. Billions of plants can't be wrong.
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Reduction in light and in some cases lower temps for some trees kill the chlorophyll.  This lets the other pigments(reds and yellows) show through that have always been there but were hidden by the abundant chlorophyll.
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The leaves (or whatever is green) on the plant make photosynthesis from sunlight---our sun gives its strongest, most energetic light in green---which is why our plant world is green---- to absorb the sun's green light the best. Water and minerals come up the roots. We breathe oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, plants breathe cabon dixoide and exhale oxygen. Cool, isn't it?\n\nSome plants in the desert have the abiity to generate new leaves in just a day or two when it rains. Rainwater has nitrogen  \n\nThe overall equation for photosynthesis is deceptively simple. \n\n6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy = C6H12O6 + 6O2\n\nThe product of photosynthesis is a carbohydrate, such as the sugar glucose, and oxygen which is released to the atmosphere. All of the sugar produced in the photosynthetic cells of plants and other organisms is derived from the initial chemical combining of carbon dioxide and water with sunlight. This chemical reaction is catalyzed by chlorophyll acting in concert with other pigment, lipid, sugars, protein, and nucleic acid molecules. Sugars created in photosynthesis can be later converted by the plant to starch for storage, or it can be combined with other sugar molecules to form specialized carbohydrates such as cellulose, or it can be combined with other nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur, to build complex molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids.
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Probably not. The purpose of photosynthesis is to produce so much food that is not only enough for the plants use, but also there is some left over for other animals too, If plants were to perform photosynthesis at the same rate of cellular respiration, they would only produce enough food that would suffice their own needs.
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No photosynthesis. There is a time of course where plants do not photosynthesize. It is normal. But if you are talking prolonged states of no photosynthesis in all plant biomass, the amount of carbondioxide would go up and 1/since there will be a deficieny in oxygen life on earth would be at risk 2/since CO2 is a green house gas, global warming will be accelerated
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the roots absorbed minerals in the soil and the trunk/branches transport the nutrients to the leaves which manufature the plant food through a proccess called photosynthesis by the action of the chlorophyl which is the green color of the leaves, and the sun's ray
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What a silly question. In some plants all of those structures except the leaf can respire anaerobically.