BIOL 2101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cellular Respiration, Sodium Chloride, Leghemoglobin

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Nutrients: substances that are necessary for the healthy physiology of organisms. Plants and other autotrophs satisfy their needs mostly by absorbing inorganic nutrients, which are present in the environment in forms that are not bound within organic compounds. Macronutrients: account for less than 0. 01% of plant biomass to as little as a few mg/g. All these chemicals are considered to be nutrients when they are present at levels that benefit the physiology and productivity of organisms. Some halophytic (salt loving) plants that are tolerant of saline habitats will amass high concentrations of nacl in their tissues. Carbon is an abundant constituent of all organic compounds and it may be viewed as the chemical backbone. Land-plants absorb inorganic carbon as gaseous co2, from the atmosphere and they fix it by photosynthesis into glucose. Molecular oxygen is needed for metabolic oxidations during cellular respiration and it is obtained as gaseous o2, from the atmosphere or dissolved in water.

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