How do red-leafed plants collect sunlight?
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Chlorophyll is only one of several photosynthetic pigments that plants use to collect sunlight and convert it to usable energy.  Others include carotene (orange) and xanthophyll (yellow).
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Plants use the energy of sunlight to grow using a process call photosynthesis (light - putting together) taking in carbon dioxide from the air and giving up oxygen.  At night the light of the moon (reflection of sunlight) is too weak to support photosynthesis and the plant actually uses oxygen rather than make it.
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Plants have a biological clock that is sensitive to amount of daylight relative to amount of darkness.  I'm not sure how this clock works, but I've read that it uses various plant hormones.  This clock (not the cold weather) is what tells plants to slow down and eventually halt photosynthesis in autumn, and send water and sugar down into the roots for storage until next spring, when the clock senses increasing daylight.  The fall colors are the result of various chemicals such as carotenoids, xanthophylls, and anthocyanins.  Some of these colorful chemicals co-exist with chlorophyll and become visible when the chlorophyll is broken down, whereas others are only produced in late summer and autumn.
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It absorbs light energy from the sun.
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Not the most specific question, but I'm guessing you're asking about energy storage. Plants use sunlight to make glucose from carbon dioxide and water, thus converting light energy to chemical (food) energy and providing the basis for life on earth as we know it.\n\nThe simple glucose molecules are then strung together to make complex carbohydrates, which serve as energy stores for the plant - and eventually, provides energy to anything that eats the plant.\n\nPlants also obviously store water, vitamins, minerals, etc. as do animals. To get a better answer you'd have to define the question better.\n\nPlants should not be stored in closets. Store where there's light. :)
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Sunflowers track the sun through changes in turgor pressure. Potassium ions get pumped into the underside of the flower on its shady side (the side where the cells aren't sensing as much blue light), which increases the turgor pressure, which causes the nearby motor cells to get longer and bend. As the sun moves across the sky, the pressure changes so that the head of the flower follows the sun. At night, when there isn't any sun, the pressure subsides, the motor cells go back to their normal size, and the flowers just kinda do whatever until the next morning. A plant's movement in response to light is called phototropism in general, but this kind of movement in particular is called heliotropism--it's diurnal, quicker, and reversible, as opposed to phototropism, which is...not.
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Because sun is needed for plants to go through photosynthesis, (this is what makes it turn green and grow). and so humans can eat it.. giving them the energy
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sunlight doesn't push water up a plant. How would sunlight push water up a plant?
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plants use the sunlight to turn nutrients into sugars to feed the plant they also take the toxins away from the plant when they go brown and drop off. Carbon dioxide and oxygen are released from them.
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The sun is not the source of ALL the energy - just almost all of it.  \n\nLight is a form of energy, most of our light is from the sun but we do recieve a tiny fraction of light from the other stars in the sky - that is why we can see them.\n\nBut the sun does supply almost all the energy.\nThe sun radiates light and other forms of energy which hits the earth and some is absorbed (some is also reflected).  Much of the absorbed light becomes heat - this is why it is hotter in the sunshine than the shade.\nSunlight also allows plants to obtain energy by a process called photosynthasis which happens in leaves and green stalks (like on a cactus).  It is this energy from sunlight which allows plants to grow.  All living things use this energy from plants via the food chain.\nFuels (like coal and oil) come from the remains of plants and animals and thus the energy was originally from the sun.\n\nThere are sources of energy which don't come from the sun such as geothermal power (this is heat from the centre of the earth which is created by pressure) and there are even organisms which live deep in the ocean which do not need any sunlight to survive (they are chemotrophic bacteria which survive around active volcanic vents in the sea floor).  \nBut to all intents and purposes a good 99% of all the energy comes from the sun.\n\nI hope this helps you with your homework!
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Plants must have light to grow.  It doesn't necessarily have to be sunlight. Artificial light is a great to grow most plants too.  Photosynthesis is what causes plants to exchange necessary nutrients to create growth but each have unique abilities to utilize whatever light source is available.
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I believe that actually the leaves of plants in the shade are more pale then in the sunlight, not darker. That's because the chlorophil which contained in leaves are not fully used for photosynthesis. The less of usage, the more pale the leaves would be. Probably u know that the leaves look greener if they have enough sunlight.
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all the energy comes from the sun....plants turn it into a form that is useful to animals...so a carnivore eats a smaller animal who may be an herbivore who feeds exclusively on plants...plants that used photosynthesis to turn solar energy to food!
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because light from the sun's rays carry in them vitamin d which every living organism needs. And plants use light for their photosysthesis.
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sunlight.\n\nPlants capture energy from sunlight, animals eat plants... or other animals that have eaten plants.\n\nAloha
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the photosynthesis makes food for the rest of the plant transported by phloem. the movement of a plant towards light is phototropism
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During photosynthesis, light energy is converted into chemical potential energy.