Title: Explain the life-sustaining processes by which all plants grow and develop.
Course: Introduction to Plant Systems (18051) > Section: Understanding Plant Processes

Explanation should include

- photosynthesis reactants and products
- cellular respiration reactants and products
- transpiration
- carbon fixation metabolism (e.g., C3, C4, Crassulacean acid metabolism [CAM]).

Process/Skill Questions:

- What organisms within plant structures are involved in photosynthesis? In respiration? In transpiration?
- How do plants store energy?
- What role does the vascular system play in food transport within a plant?
- How does climate change put additional stress on crops?
- How are shifting growing patterns influencing new insect and weed threats that damage harvests?
- Why is it important to protect innovation in plant breeding?
- Which of the three metabolisms would work best in specific growing conditions?