can some plants grow without sun or water?
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Yeah plants can grow without sun. those plants are called are non-photosynthetic plants. as they do not have photosynthetic pigments. They are also termed as chemosynthetic plants as they prepare their food by chemicals and not by sun light. As far as water is concrned then no plant on earth gorws without it. Water is essential for every livig animal. Its basic requirement for solutes and solvents to get transported from one cell to another. without it plants will DIe. try growing plants without water, they will shrink and eventually die.
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It's mostly a desert so yeah I would think water and ability to grow anything would be fairly important.\n\nAdmit it.  You want us to help you answer the essay question on your take home exam don't you!!!
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none, nil, nada, zip\n\nalcohol dehydrates and plants need water to grow.
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it depends on the species, the soil condition, the amount of sunlight and the temp and wind or lack of.
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Austrailia is very dry and warm so plants adapt by not needing much water or shade
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They are things that plants need in order to grow.
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nope, u need sunlight for plants to grow and theres no sun in ur stomach.
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Plants which reproduce without seeds appeared first in the history of the Earth.  Plants with seeds appeared much later.
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Yes, actually if you water the plants too much the roots gets rotten and die, on the other hand if you don't water the plants they also die, so it has to be a balance, water moderate once a day and plenty of sunlight, that's the idea..☺
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I think it would only be possible if there was also lots of water on the planet as well as good solar radiation being close to a star and carbon dioxide. Also it would be helpful if there was nitrogen in the soil since plants absorb nutrients from the soil. There would also need to be rainfall on the planet, but if there wasn't irrigation and watering by caretakers could be sufficient.\n\nAnd what about terraforming? Mars has an atmosphere and I beieve carbon dioxide. Could plants grow on Mars? We'd have to transport millions of gallons of water in our ships and keep the water from sinking deep into the planet. Why would we want to do that? It could cost a trillion dollars. The moon has no atmosphere I'm not sure it could be terraformed. Just a thought.
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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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Yes, this plant prefers a lot of sun, more so than other plants. It will bloom very nicely.
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Water and "nutrients" depending on the specific type of cell. Plant cells need inorganic nitrogen compounds (ammonia, nitrate), phosphate, iron, magnesium, manganese, copper,...\nAnimal cells need organic substances like sugars or amino acids (which plant cells can produce on their own) additionally to vitamins and ions (iron, copper, cobalt, zinc, molybdenum, iodine, selenium,...)
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It is possible that the color of the water absorbed by the plant could tint the leaves darker than the leaves would be if the plant absorbed clear, colorless water.  This might effect the growth rate.\n\nAlso, the color of the water could be due to a chemical that affects growth rate, so in this case, yes the rate could be affected.
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in the absence of an aquatic environent, some aquatic plants die, and mutated plants with special characteristics, such as seeds, live. these more "fit" plants multiply, and then you have a plant species that can adapt without an aquatic environment. \nthis is similar to (but much more complicated than) bacterial resistance to antibiotics, or crop insects resistance to insecticide.
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They do not need a lot of water.  Replace the soil with cactus soil from any garden centre, and give it a nice sized pot. Mine are always doubling in size, I split one a couple of weeks ago and got nineteen plants from it, which I threw away because nobody wanted one, shame innit.
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In general sunlight is necessary for plant growth, however this is not always the case.  Parasitic plants, such as Rafflesia and Dodder, do not require sunlight because they get all the nutrients they need from another plant (Rafflesia, for example, attaches itself to the roots of liana plants) and do not need to undergo photosynthesis at all.  So, I would say the general case is that light is necessary for plant growth but that there are some notable exceptions.