CBSE Science Class 7
Nutrition in Plants
Nutrition in Plants - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT
Points To Remember:
- Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals are essential components of food, these components are called nutrients
- Humans and animals are dependent directly or indirectly on plants for food
- Nutrition is the mode of taking food by an organism and its utilisation by the body
- Green plants are called autotrophs as they prepare their own food from simple substances
- Animals and most other organisms are called heterotrophs as they take in ready-made food prepared by the plants
- The synthesis of food in plants occurs in leaves
- Photosynthesis can be carried out in presence of chlorophyll, sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water
- Complex chemical substances like carbohydrates are the products of photosynthesis
- Pitcher plants and Venus flytraps are insectivorous plants
- Fungi derive nutrition from dead and decaying matters they are called saprotrophs
