Plants Obtaining and Transporting Nutrients
Pigments and photosynthesis 1. Distinguish between the strategies used by autotrophs and heterotrophs to obtain free energy for cellular processes. In other words, how and in what form does each capture and store that energy? 2. Explain how photosynthesis differs in eukaryotic organisms (with organelles such as chloroplasts) and in prokaryotic organisms (single-celled, no organelles). 3. How does a metabolic pathway such as photosynthesis suggest common ancestry? 4. Describe the basic structure and function of a chloroplast. 5. Describe the benefit of having several different types of pigment molecule present in a photosystem. 6. Distinguish