● All living organisms `color{violet}"need energy"` for carrying out `color{violet}"daily life activities"`, be it absorption, transport, movement, reproduction or even breathing.
● In reality, the `color{violet}"process of breathing"` is very much connected to the process of `color{violet}"release of energy"` from food.
● All the energy required for `color{violet}"life’ processes"` is obtained by `color{violet}"oxidation of some macromolecules"` that we call ‘food’.
● Only `color{vBrown}"green plants and cyanobacteria"` can prepare their own food; by the `color{violet}"process of photosynthesis"`
they `color{violet}"trap light energy"` and convert it into `color{violet}"chemical energy"` that is stored in the `color{violet}"bonds of carbohydrates"` like glucose, sucrose and starch.
● We must remember that in `color{violet}"green plants"` too, not all `color{violet}"cells, tissues and organs"` photosynthesise; only `color{violet}"cells containing chloroplasts"`, that are most often located in the `color{violet}"superficial layers"`, carry out photosynthesis.
● Hence, even in green plants all other organs, tissues and cells that are `color{violet}"non-green"`, need `color{violet}"food for oxidation"`. Hence, food has to be translocated to all nongreen parts.
● `color{Brown}"Animals are heterotrophic"`, i.e., they obtain food from `color{violet}"plants directly"` (`color{Brown}"herbivores"`) or indirectly (`color{Brown}"carnivores"`).
● `color{Brown}"Saprophytes"` like fungi are dependent on `color{violet}"dead and decaying matter"`.
● All living organisms `color{violet}"need energy"` for carrying out `color{violet}"daily life activities"`, be it absorption, transport, movement, reproduction or even breathing.
● In reality, the `color{violet}"process of breathing"` is very much connected to the process of `color{violet}"release of energy"` from food.
● All the energy required for `color{violet}"life’ processes"` is obtained by `color{violet}"oxidation of some macromolecules"` that we call ‘food’.
● Only `color{vBrown}"green plants and cyanobacteria"` can prepare their own food; by the `color{violet}"process of photosynthesis"`
they `color{violet}"trap light energy"` and convert it into `color{violet}"chemical energy"` that is stored in the `color{violet}"bonds of carbohydrates"` like glucose, sucrose and starch.
● We must remember that in `color{violet}"green plants"` too, not all `color{violet}"cells, tissues and organs"` photosynthesise; only `color{violet}"cells containing chloroplasts"`, that are most often located in the `color{violet}"superficial layers"`, carry out photosynthesis.
● Hence, even in green plants all other organs, tissues and cells that are `color{violet}"non-green"`, need `color{violet}"food for oxidation"`. Hence, food has to be translocated to all nongreen parts.
● `color{Brown}"Animals are heterotrophic"`, i.e., they obtain food from `color{violet}"plants directly"` (`color{Brown}"herbivores"`) or indirectly (`color{Brown}"carnivores"`).
● `color{Brown}"Saprophytes"` like fungi are dependent on `color{violet}"dead and decaying matter"`.