How Plants Survive
How Plants Survive
HOW PLANTS
SURVIVE
OBJECTIVES
▪ At the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
▪ DERMAL TISSUE
▪ The surface of the plant is covered by the dermal tissue system. It principally protects
the inner tissues of the plant, but also connects them to the outer world.
▪VASCULAR TISSUE
▪ Composed of
XYLEM and PHLOEM,
which function in the
transport of water
and dissolved
substances.
PLANT GROWTH
AND
DEVELOPMENT
MERISTEMATIC TISSUES
▪ Responsible for the
division of new cells
where zones of actively
dividing cells can be
found and where it allows
the organisms to have
indeterminate growth
which insures that plant
can grow throughout its
life.
PHOTOSYNTHES
IS
FOOD PRODUCTION IN PLANTS
THE AUTOTROPHS
▪Organisms that can
produce their own
food.
OCCURS IN
GRANUM/THYLAKOID
OCCURS IN STROMA
PHOTOSYNTHESIS CHEMICAL
EQUATION
LIGHT DEPENDENT
REACTION/LIGHT
▪ It is the stage where the REACTION
chlorophyll absorbs the
energy from the sun
(PHOTONS)
2 groups of light absorbing
molecules:
1. Photosystem I
2. Photosystem II
Expected Products: Oxygen
gas (O₂), NADPH and ATP
DARK REACTION/CALVIN
CYCLE
▪ Named after Melvin
Calvin
▪ Consists of cyclical series
of reactions that uses
enzymes to assemble
sugar molecules from
carbon dioxide and the
products of light reaction.
▪ Expected product:
Glucose C₆H₁₂O₆
LIGHT REACTION VS.
DARK REACTION
▪ Legend:
H₂O- water
O₂- Oxygen gas
CO₂- Carbon dioxide
ATP- Adenosine triphosphate
NADPH- Nicotinamide Adenine
Dinucleotide phosphate
ADP- Adenosine diphosphate