No. All the organisms depend directly or indirectly for food on plants. Plants prepare their food by photosynthesis. So if plants won't get food they'll die n thus it wud be difficult 4 other organisms 2 survive.
Moreover, oxygen is produced only by this process. Oxygen is necessary 4 all 2 survive. So life without photosynthesis is not possible.
2007-01-24 23:13:59
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answered by annie 2
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The IS life on this planet without photosynthesis.
Your question can be answered on two levels:-
Simplisticly speaking all non-plants live on this planet without direct dependency on photosynthesis. Animals do not photosynthesise so therefore there is life on this planet without photosynthesis. However, animals are dependent on photosynthesis because they either eat plants or eat the animals which eat plants. A "waste product" of photosynthesis is oxygen which most (but definitely not ALL) living things depend on (e.g. anaerobic bacteria such as Sulphabacter use sulphur in place of oxygen and can survice quite happily in an oxygen-free environment).
There is a second form of independence from photosynthesis: use of an alternate source of energy as the base of the food chain. This has been identified in two main forms:-
1. organisms which cluster around volcanic outlets deep in the ocean exist in total darkness throughout their lives and depend for their energy on the heat and chemicals generated by these outlets. No photosynthesis is involved in any stage of their life cycle. This is only a comparatively recent discovery (1970s I think). Other organisms feed entirely off of these life forms and the whole food chain is independent of photosynthesis or the oxygen derived from it.
2. Bacteria which exist deep in the Earth's crust survive again using geothermal heat and the minerals that exist around them. These are both anaerobic (not requiring oxygen derived from plants or any other source) and non-photosynthetic.
2007-01-24 20:00:03
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answered by Anonymous
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the destruction of the delicate balance between plants and ourselves was the major reason for the extinction times of the earth surface in areas where there were catastrophic meteor hits. The "bangs". But nature was resilient, and the trees and vegetation came back and so did we.
Am sending you a link from the encyclopedia Brittanica that takes the steps that will explain how photosynthesis , light energy and ourselves metamorphosed as science sees it.
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The molecular biology of photosynthesis
Oxygenic photosynthesis occurs in both prokaryotic cells (cyanophytes) and eukaryotic cells (algae and higher plants). In eukaryotic cells, which contain chloroplasts and a nucleus, the genetic information needed for the reproduction of the photosynthetic apparatus is contained partly in the chloroplast chromosome and partly in chromosomes of the nucleus. For example, the carboxylation enzyme ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase is a large protein molecule comprising a complex of eight large polypeptide subunits and eight small polypeptide subunits. The gene for the large subunits is located in the chloroplast chromosome, while the gene for the small subunits is in the nucleus. Transcription of the DNA of the nuclear gene yields messenger RNA (mRNA) that encodes the information for the synthesis of the small polypeptides. During this synthesis, which occurs on the cytoplasmic ribosomes, some extra amino acid residues are added to form a recognition leader on the end of the polypeptide chain. This leader is recognized by special receptor sites on the outer chloroplast membrane; these receptor sites then allow the polypeptide to penetrate the membrane and enter the chloroplast. The leader is removed and the small subunits combine with the large subunits, which have been synthesized on chloroplast ribosomes according to mRNA transcribed from the chloroplast DNA. The expression of nuclear genes that code for proteins needed in the chloroplasts appears to be under control of events in the chloroplasts in some cases; for example, the synthesis of some nuclear-encoded chloroplast enzymes may occur only when light is absorbed by chloroplasts.
2007-01-24 20:15:11
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answered by QuiteNewHere 7
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a million) Our solar isn't unique, or perhaps that uncommon. that is a important-sequence yellow dwarf. maximum stars are pink dwarves, which probable can't help existence. yet scientists estimate that there are 70 SEXTILLION stars accessible, and likely have planets. that's no longer demanding to work out why the opportunities are in our pick, once you in user-friendly words ought to get the triumphing blend once. If maximum scientists trust that existence is so impossibly unique, why are they searching different planets for it contained in the first position? 2) existence has adjusted itself to our surroundings, no longer any incorrect way round. Is it really that startling, operating example, that existence on earth relies upon on water, and that we've a lot water right here? that's like being surprised that pencils write properly on paper, and - lo and behold! - we've a lot of paper! that's neither twist of destiny nor danger, yet causation. 3) Do you've self belief that an truly good Flood wiped out all of humanity, and that a pair of hundred years later, the few dozens of Noah's descendants equipped the Pyramids, the finished kingdom of Mesopotamia, and the historic chinese civilization (nowhere close to the Biblical land!) - in one day?
2016-12-03 00:45:01
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answered by bartow 4
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photosynthesis takes place in the plants and these are the primary producers,so there wont be life with out photosynthesis
2007-01-24 20:14:20
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answered by wild joe 2
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absolutly not! most organisms in the wold realy on oxygen... which comes from plants.. which only survive from photosynthesis.
2007-01-24 20:14:04
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answered by Anonymous
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Anaerobic organisms would be happy without oxygen, but not us animalistic types, if you catch my drift.
JAM THE GODDAMN THUMBS DOWN UP YOUR ***!
2007-01-24 19:57:40
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answered by Anonymous
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no, photosynthesis has to take place or there won't be any oxygen
2007-01-24 19:56:54
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answered by Russell 3
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ya we can have but for that we must have a machine that can produce billions of tons of OxYgen.
and i think u would be agree that this is not possible.
2007-01-24 19:57:31
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answered by krissh 3
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