All categories

3 years ago

when obtaining energy, why mushrooms are more like elephants eating and not like dandelions absorbing sunlight.

Chemistry

1 answer:

Julli [10]3 years ago

6 0

Answer:

Because they lack chlorophyll (a green pigment in plants that helps them trap sunlight, used to manufacture their food through photosynthesis)

Explanation:

Mushrooms are heterotrophs. They are not plants or autotrophs. Mushrooms, just like every living thing that exists need energy in order to live. Only plants, or autotrophs, can directly use energy from the sun (the ultimate energy) to make food. Those organisms that cannot harness the sun's energy are known as heterotrophs. Mushrooms are fungi (belong to kingdom Fungi) and are heterotrophs because they decompose and consume nutrients from the soil. They are not green so they cannot photosynthesis due to lack of chlorophyll.

You might be interested in

When the temperature of the gas changes from cold to hot, the amount of pressure is ___________.

Klio2033 [76]

The pressure would increase. When the temperature change form cold to hot, the gas will find ways to escape from containment. Thus, if it cannot escape that pressure will keep on increasing as the temperature rises.

6 0

3 years ago

Ammonia is produced by the following reaction. 3H2(g) N2(g) Right arrow. 2NH3(g) When 7. 00 g of hydrogen react with 70. 0 g of

harkovskaia [24]

In the ammonia production process given by the reaction 3H₂(g) + N₂(g) → 2NH₃(g), when 7.00 g of hydrogen react with 70.0 g of nitrogen, hydrogen is considered the limiting reactant because 7.5 moles of hydrogen would be needed to consume the available nitrogen (option 1).

The reaction is the following:

3H₂(g) + N₂(g) → 2NH₃(g) (1)

To know why hydrogen is considered the limiting reactant, we need to calculate the number of moles of nitrogen and hydrogen with the following equation:

$n = \frac{m}{M}$

Where:

m: is the mass

M: is the molar mass

For hydrogen we have:

$n_{H_{2}} = \frac{m}{M} = \frac{7.00 g}{2.016 g/mol} = 3.47 \:moles$

And for nitrogen:

$n_{N_{2}} = \frac{m}{M} = \frac{70.0 g}{28.013 g/mol} = 2.50 \:moles$

We can see in reaction (1) that 3 moles of hydrogen react with 1 mol of nitrogen, so the number of hydrogen moles needed to react nitrogen is:

$n_{H_{2}} = \frac{3\:moles\:H_{2}}{1\:moles\:N_{2}}*n_{N_{2}} = \frac{3\:moles\:H_{2}}{1\:moles\:N_{2}}*2.50 \:moles = 7.50 \:moles$

Since we have 3.47 moles of hydrogen and we need 7.50 moles to react with all the mass of nitrogen, the limiting reactant is hydrogen.

We can find the number of ammonia moles produced with the limiting reactant (hydrogen) konwing that 3 moles of hydrogen produces 2 moles of ammonia, so:

$n_{NH_{3}} = \frac{2\:moles\:NH_{3}}{3\:moles\:H_{2}}*n_{H_{2}} = \frac{2\:moles\:NH_{3}}{3\:moles\:H_{2}}*3.47 \:moles = 2.31 \:moles$

Hence, hydrogen would produce 2.31 moles of ammonia.

Therefore, hydrogen is the limiting reactant because 7.5 moles of hydrogen would be needed to consume the available nitrogen (option 1).

Find more about limiting reactants here:

brainly.com/question/2948214?referrer=searchResults

I hope it helps you!

6 0

3 years ago

a sample of a compound contains 60gC and 5.05gH.it molar mass is 78.12g/mol what is the compound molecular formula

elena55 [62]

(60)/(60+5.05)=.922367 C
1-0.922367=0.07763259 H
(0.922367)(78.12)=72.05534204 C
(0.07763259)(78.12)=6.06 H
72.05534204/(12.01)=6 C
6.06/1.01=6 H
Empirical= CH
Molecular=C6H6

5 0

3 years ago

During a chemical reaction, the______

WINSTONCH [101]

Answer:

limiting reagent :)

Explanation:

5 0

3 years ago

Read 2 more answers

Which items are directly related to radioactive decay

uranmaximum [27]