what substances does a green plant need to take in to make sugars(like glucose) and proteins?

Answer 1

Here is the formula for sugar C6 H12 O6. So Water is H2O, Carbon Dioxide is CO2. These are taken into the plant. We need six carbon, 12 hydrogen and six oxygen. We need 6 water molecules giving us 12 hydrogen (6x2) and 6 oxygen, we still need the carbon and so we absorb six CO2 from the air giving us 6 carbon and 12 more oxygen (6x2). Now lets add up everything we have so far. Hydrogen is 12, Carbon is 6 and we have way too much oxygen, we have 24 and only need 6. So it looks like we have a waste product producing 18 unneeded Oxygen's. So this is why plants keep us alive and breathing because we need there waste (or poops) to survive. Once the plant has the required elements it is sent to the leaves and the power house or sugar manufacturer(chlorophyll) which gets it power from the sun (Photosynthesis--- Photo -Light and synthesis - to make) and starts making sugars which is the blood and life line for all green plants. All the extra Oxygen taken in are sent to the end of the leaves( small little holes ) called the Stomata and are exhausted into the atmosphere. Water is also needed to keep the cells of the plants as well as animals (humans) filled (rigid) and healthy. Water has no calories, but absorbs some trace elements which are needed by the plants to keep healthy. This is why we must keep our green world (Rain Forests) in a healthy condition. Our oceans also produce large amounts of Oxygen (actually the plant life living in the ocean near the surface, as needed sunlight diminishes as we go deeper) I hope this is clear to see what happens inside a plant to make sugar. Plants need other things like Nitrogen, potassium and phospherous to grow not produce sugar which is what you asked.

Answer 2

Glucose is a ringed sugar with the molecular formula C6 H12 O6. so which you would be able to assume that this may well be a resource of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Fatty acids have the final style HOOC-(CH2)n -CH3 the place n = one million to 19. given that fat are in basic terms carbon and hydrogen, they may well be made out of glucose. Nucleic acids and protiens are composed of the climate C H N O P S, given that glucose lacks N P and S, those aspects might desire to come from and exterior resource. So your appropriate answer is C

Answer 3

Glucose:
water (from the soil)
carbon dioxide (from the air)

Proteins:
water (from the soil)
carbon dioxide (from the air)
fixed nitrogen as nitrate or ammonia or both (from the soil)
inorganic salts of sulfur (from the soil) - used in cysteine and methionine

Answer 4

Sunlight, water, carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the air, and nutrients in the soil.

Answer 5

photosynthesis