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Agriculture · Q246

Environmental Science In Agricultural

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 246

Q246

Source of carbon to plants is

A.
Carbon dioxide of carbonate rocks
B.
Fossil fuels
C.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide
Answer
D.
All of the above

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Source of carbon to plants is Atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Nearly half the dry substance of plants is carbon; and it is conclusively established that they derive, at any rate, the greater part of it, directly from the carbon-dioxide of the atmosphere, which the chlorophyll cells have the power of decomposing in sunlight, at the same time evolving oxygen.