CBSE Class 10 Answered

Some important keys in nutrition in plants:

• Autotrophic nutrition is the mode of nutrition in which organisms synthesise their own food from simple inorganic substances such as water and carbon dioxide.
• Plants are autotrophs and synthesise their food by photosynthesis.
• Photosynthesis is a physiological process by which plant cells containing chlorophyll produce food in the form of carbohydrates using carbon dioxide, water and light energy. Oxygen is released as a by-product of this process.
• The palisade layer is the centre for photosynthesis. Light energy is trapped in the chlorophyll of the mesophyll cells in the palisade layer of leaves.
• The two main phases of photosynthesis are light dependent phase and light independent phase.
• Light dependent phase occurs in the thylakoids of the chloroplast while the light independent phase occurs in the stroma.

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