Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
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Chapter 7, Problem 1SQ
Is the following statement true or false? Unlike animals, which make many ATP by aerobic respiration, plants make all of their ATP by photosynthesis.
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Summary Introduction
To examine: Whether the statement “Unlike animals, which make many ATP molecules by aerobic respiration, plants make all of their ATP by photosynthesis” is true or false.
Introduction: Aerobic respiration is the process in which oxygen is required for cellular respiration, breaking down of organic molecules, and for producing ATP, carbon dioxide, and water.
Answer to Problem 1SQ
Correct answer: The statement is false.
Explanation of Solution
The plant produces sugar and releases oxygen by the process of photosynthesis. Aerobic respiration consists of glycolysis, acetyl-CoA formation, the citric acid cycle, and electron transfer. The breakdown of sugar in aerobic respiration requires oxygen, and it produces ATP, carbon dioxide, and water. Plants make ATP not only through photosynthesis in chloroplasts, but it also makes ATP through cellular respiration in mitochondria.
Hence, the statement is false.
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Is the following statement true or false? Unlike animals,which make many ATP by aerobic respiration, plantsmake all of their ATP by photosynthesis
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Chapter 7 Solutions
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
Ch. 7 - Is the following statement true or false? Unlike...Ch. 7 - Glycolysis starts and ends in the ___. a. nucleus...Ch. 7 - Which of the following metabolic pathways...Ch. 7 - Which molecule does not form during glycolysis? a....Ch. 7 - Prob. 5SQCh. 7 - Which of the following reaction pathways is not...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7SQCh. 7 - Prob. 8SQCh. 7 - Prob. 9SQCh. 7 - Mitochondrial Abnormalities in Tetralogy of Fallot...
Ch. 7 - Mitochondrial Abnormalities in Tetralogy of Fallot...Ch. 7 - Mitochondrial Abnormalities in Tetralogy of Fallot...Ch. 7 - Prob. 10SQCh. 7 - Most of the energy that aerobic respiration...Ch. 7 - Prob. 12SQCh. 7 - Prob. 13SQCh. 7 - Prob. 14SQCh. 7 - Match the term with the best description. _____...Ch. 7 - Prob. 1CTCh. 7 - As you learned, membranes impermeable to hydrogen...Ch. 7 - Prob. 3CT
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