Question


 3. Compare the amount of energy that can be stored in ATP and glucose. How does the cell use each of these molecules to store energy?
4. Suppose you water a potted plant and place it by a window in a transparent, airtight jar. Predict how the rate of photosynthesis might be affected over the next few days. What might happen if the plant were left there for several weeks? Explain.

Answer 1

3. Cells use glucose to store large amounts of energy for long period of time. 
In contrast, ATP is used to store smaller amounts of energy that will be used in the next few seconds.
A glucose molecule can store more than 90 times the energy of a ATP molecules.

4. The fact that the potted plant is in air tight jar affect the process of photosynthesis. The plant is airtight jar which means that the plant is not able to breath and run out of CO2 to produce sugars. So the plant wouldn't be able to complete photosynthesis.