gas exchange in plants
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Gas Exchange in Plants. Revision slides. Gas Exchange in Leaves. Plants, like animals, respire aerobically. So they require oxygen and produce carbon dioxide In daylight they also photosynthesise – and they do this faster than they respire - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Gas Exchange in Plants
Revision slides
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Gas Exchange in Leaves
• Plants, like animals, respire aerobically.• So they require oxygen and produce carbon
dioxide• In daylight they also photosynthesise – and
they do this faster than they respire• The oxygen produced in photosynthesis is
enough to supply the leaf cells for respiration.
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Reminder
Photosynthesis:
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Darkness
• In darkness there is no photosynthesis only respiration
• The plant doesn’t use a transport system – each cell obtains gases it needs by diffusion
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Structure of a leaf
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Label your own
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The gas exchange surface
• The gas exchange surface is the surfaces of the mesophyll cells in contact with air spaces in the leaf.
• The surface area is large and diffusion distances are small – carbon dioxide or oxygen molecules only have to travel from an air space across a single cell wall to get to the cytoplasm in the cell.
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The plants problem
• Losing water from the gas exchange surface by evaporation across the gas exchange surface.
• Water evaporates from the wet cell walls in contact with air spaces in the leaf and it is lost by transpiration.
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FYI: Transpiration
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Reducing Water Loss
• High humidity• Low temperatures• Out of the wind• Closing the stomata
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Stomata
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How stomata open and close
• Carbon dioxide and oxygen diffuse in and out of leaves through small openings called stomata.
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How stomata open and close
• Most stomata are underneath the leaf• A stomata is surrounded by 2 guard cells • Guard cells control the opening and closing– this controls the diffusion of gas and water vapour
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Guard Cells
• Have chloroplasts• Cell walls are especially rigid• When cells absorb water it expands and
becomes turgid• Their rigid inner wall resists expansion and
they become more curved• When they lose water and become flaccid and
collapse closing the stomata