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Uses of Glucose in Plants (Storage (Glucose which is soluble is converted…
Uses of Glucose in Plants
Storage
Glucose which is soluble is converted into insoluble starch for storage. Glucose molecules link together to form a complicated carbohydrate starch. This starch can be in roots, leaves, and stems - ready for when photosynthesis isn't happening (at night, in the winter, etc.) Potato and carrot plants store a lot of starch underground over the winter so a new plant can grow from it the following spring - we are eating the swollen storage organs. Plants store glucose as starch as a food source. They store it in order for animals to eat the plants and the starch being stored in it. Starch is made in the green leaves of plants.
glucose is converted into insoluble starch
stored in the roots, leaves and stems
Fruit
In botany, a fruit is a seed-bearing structure in flowering plants formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which angiosperms disseminate seeds. Glucose, along with another sugar called fructose, is turned into sucrose for storing in fruits. Fruits deliberately taste nice so that animals will eat them and spread the seeds all over the place in their poop.
fructose + glucose = sucrose
sucrose is the sugar in fruits
Respiration
Stored Energy being Released as Needed.
Energy Is Used To Build New Cells + Grow
happens in the mitochondria
Seeds
Glucose -> Lipids (Fats & Oils)
Stores Lipids and Starch
Protein Synthesis
glucose + nitrates (from soil) --> amino acids
amino acids are converted into proteins, which keep the plant alive.
Cellulose
Gluscose is turned into cellulose which are used to make cell walls