The correct answer is option C, that is, have poor soils with little organic matter.
In the tropical rain forests, only a thin covering of decaying organic matter is present. The majority of the tropical rainforest soils are comparatively poor in nutrients. The torrential rains and millions of years of weathering have washed the majority of nutrients out of the soil.
In the tropical rain forests, the soils are generally poor in nutrients and all the nutrients are captivated in the living species. The soils in various regions of the tropical rain forests are laterite soils.
The 4 types of organic compounds and their subdivisions within living organisms are:
1. Carbohydrates:
- Monosaccharides,
- Oligosaccharides,
- Polysaccharides.
2. Lipids:
- Fats,
- Phospholipids,
- Waxes,
- Sterols.
3. Proteins:
- Primary structure (amino acid sequence),
- The secondary structure,
- The tertiary structure,
- The quaternary structure.
4. Nucleic acids:
- DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid),
- RNA (ibonucleic acid).
Explanation: The products of photosynthesis are glucose and oxygen.
Did you know that oxygen is actually a waste product of photosynthesis? Although the hydrogen atoms from the water molecules are used in the photosynthesis reactions, the oxygen molecules are released as oxygen gas (O2). (This is good news for organisms like humans and plants that use oxygen to carry out cellular respiration!) Oxygen passes out of the leaves through the stomata.
The light-independent reactions of photosynthesis—also known as the Calvin cycle—use enzymes in the stroma, along with the energy-carrying molecules (ATP and NADPH) from the light-dependent reactions, to break down carbon dioxide molecules (CO2) into a form that is used to build glucose.The mitochondria in the plant’s cells use cellular respiration to break glucose down into a usable form of energy (ATP), which fuels all the plant’s activities.
After the light-independent reactions, glucose is often made into larger sugars like sucrose or carbohydrates like starch or cellulose. Sugars leave the leaf through the phloem and can travel to the roots for storage or to other parts of the plant, where they’re used as energy to fuel the plant’s activities.
