Question

The stored food of higher plants?​

Answer 1

$\star$ The stored food of higher plants is Starch.

• Plants produce food by a photo-chemical process known as photosynthesis.

$\boxed{\sf{Water+CO_{2}\rightarrow Glucose+O_{2}+Water}}$

• It uses carbon dioxide and water in presence of sunlight and chlorophyll to produce water oxygen and carbohydrates like glucose.

• Later this glucose gets converted to starch and is stored in the various storage forms of the plants.

$\boxed{\sf{Glucose \iff Starch}}$

• Examples of such storage parts are modified stems in potato , fleshy leaves in onion , modified roots in carrots etc.

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Answer 2

⟹ ⋆ Green algae have storage bodies called pyrenoids in which starch is stored mainly. higher plants also store their food as starch. because starch is non reactive and easily transportable.so one can say that green algae are ancestors of higher plants⋆

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