Answer:
1. Photosynthesis releases oxygen gas as a product.
2. Subtracting cellular respiration from gross primary productivity
3. True
Explanation:
1. Photosynthesis is the process by which autotrophic organisms synthesize their food in form of sugars in the presence of sunlight. Photosynthetic process combines carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) to form glucose (C6H12O6) and oxygen gas as products. The equation is as follows:
6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2
2. Net primary productivity, denoted by NPP, refers to the amount of biomass present in an ecosystem. It can be calculated by subtracting the amount of CO2 lost via cellular respiration from the amount produced called Gross primary productivity (GPP). That is;
NPP = GPP - cellular respiration
3. The process by which organic matter is synthesized from inorganic ones by organisms called AUTOTROPHS or PRIMARY PRODUCERS is called PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY. Examples of autotrophic organisms are green plants, algae etc. Hence, in an ecosystem that have a high primary productivity, there would be a rapid rate of conversion of solar energy to biomass via PHOTOSYNTHESIS.
