Question

5 Students were having a conversation about how plants and animals use the sugars (glucose) made from photosynthesis. Which of the following student do you agree with?

Maya: Plants and animals use the sugar in cellular respiration. They take glucose and oxygen and then create carbon dioxide, water and ATP as outputs. The bonds of ATP store the energy and are released as a phosphate gets released

Marty: Plants and animals use the glucose in two ways. One, they use it as an ingredient in cellular respiration to make ATP which supplies the organisms with energy. Two, they use the glucose and break it down and then rebuild it as amino acids, lipids and other biomolecules to build essential components of the organism, giving the organism its mass.

Samuel: Plants and animals both need the sugar to go through photosynthesis. The sugars store energy as chemical energy and then they are used in the chloroplast to make light energy and ATP chemical energy

Kale: Plants use carbon dioxide and turn it into the sugars. The carbon is then found in the glucose where during respiration it is used to build biomolecules that give us our mass.

Answer 1

The correct option is B.

Marty: Plants and animals use the glucose in two ways. One, they use it as an ingredient in cellular respiration to make ATP which supplies the organisms with energy. Two, they use the glucose and break it down and then rebuild it as amino acids, lipids and other bio-molecules to build essential components of the organism, giving the organism its mass.

Step-by-step explanation:

Photosynthesis can be described as a process in which plants convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen by using light energy from the Sun. Oxygen is produced as a by-product of this reaction.

The glucose produced by photosynthesis is used for cellular respiration by the plant and by the consumer that eats the plant. Cellular respiration is a process by which plants convert oxygen and glucose into water and carbon dioxide. ATP is released during the process which is used for cellular activities.

Glucose is also used to build essential macromolecules by the plant like carbohydrates, fats ans proteins.