Answer:
1. Plants utilize some of the incoming energy derived from photosynthesis for their own self-maintenance.
3. Plants and algae carry out both photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
5. Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria utilize light energy from the sun into their own biomass.
Explanation:
The gross primary productivity (GPP) of an ecosystem represents the rate at which the solar energy is captured during photosynthesis in a given period. Producers (plants, algae and cyanobacteria) perform cellular respiration to provide energy for their life processes. Cellular respiration consumes part of the total photosynthetic output. The energy available in tissues of producers after cellular respiration is called net primary productivity (NPP).
Therefore, NPP is the amount of biomass or the energy stored in the tissues of the producers for growth after cellular respiration for their normal daily activities and self-maintenance. So, NPP is always less than GPP.
Answer:
A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources. A specialist species can thrive only in a narrow range of environmental conditions or has a limited diet. Most organisms do not all fit neatly into either group, however
Explanation:
<u>Answer:</u>
<em>The surface tension of any liquid is due to the attraction between the inter molecular forces. </em>
<u>Explanation:</u>
Strong inter molecular forces of attraction produces strong surface tension. If the hydrogen bond between the molecules gets disrupted then the surface tension also decreases.
When a liquid drops onto the floor then it assumes a spherical shape because the surface tension is minimum when the liquid assumes the spherical shape. Water has high surface tension and is important to environment.
Answer:
And unless people interfere, thermal energy — or heat — naturally flows in one direction only: from hot toward cold. Heat moves naturally by any of three means. The processes are known as conduction, convection and radiation. Sometimes more than one may occur at the same time.
Explanation:
Answer:
a. Gametophytes of bryophytes
d. Sporophytes of seedless vascular plants
Explanation:
Bryophytes are non-vascular plants. The plant body is haploid gametophyte which is its dominant phase and bears sex organs. The gametophyte may be leafy as in moss and may be with thalloid as in liverworts.
Pteridophytes are seedless, true vascular plants. The plant body is the diploid sporophyte. The sporophyte is differentiated into true leaves, stem and roots.
