Activity 82: The Cells of Producers
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Challenge How are the cells of
plants, such as producers, different
from the cells of consumers, such as
animals?
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How do plant structures relate to
their function as producers?
Activity 82: The Cells of Producers
Vocabulary
Producer
Consumer
Photosynthesis – the process of using
sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide
into glucose (energy) and oxygen.
Botany – the study of plants
Chloroplast
Getting Started
Read the Introduction on page E-54
 Read through the procedure on page
E- 55-6.
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How does the plant
get water from the
soil to the leaves?
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How does the plant
get enough light?
Although it is easy to see plant
structures with the naked eye, it
is also true at the microscopic
level.
We are going to investigate how
the cellular structure of plants
relates to their ability to produce
food through photosynthesis
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You will be preparing slides and
looking at:
Elodea
Spinach
Celery
Onion
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In your notebooks:
◦ Glue in the Cell Drawings Handout
◦ Remember tomorrow – Cell drawings need to
be neat and as accurate as possible. Do not
scribble!!!
Review of Photosynthesis
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Talk to the person across from you or
next to you and review the equation
for photosynthesis.
Onion Cell
Celery Cell
Elodea Cell
Spinach Cell
Plant Cell Diagram
How are the 4 producer cells
different?
Hint!
Think about which part of the plant each
cell belongs to! (Stem, Root, Leaf, Flower)
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In your tables work on Analysis
Questions:
1-3
and 5
Analysis Questions Page E- 56
1a. We observed:
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Chloroplasts,
cell wall,
cytoplasm,
vacuole
1b. Nuclei and cell
membranes were not
seen
◦ Nuclei are too small
◦ Cell walls are clear and
up against the cell wall
2. All of the cells contained Cytoplasm,
vacuoles, and cell walls
◦ -chloroplasts are not visible in the onion skin
◦ The cell walls and water pressure in the
vacuoles help to support the plant.
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3a. The animal cell is a
consumer.
Animal cells need to get
their energy from food,
such as starches, and
sugars made by plants
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3b.nucleus, (and nuclear
membrane) cytoplasm, and
cell membrane would be in
both types of cells
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3c. Chloroplasts are most
important in food
production/photosynthesis.
5a. Leaves and stems are exposed to sun
year-round, so they are likely to absorb
sunlight.
The leaves are the primary photosynthesis
factories of the plant, but other green parts
can also carry out the process.
The non-green parts do not
photosynthesize. Roots do not receive
sunlight and flowers serve for reproduction.
5b. The cells of the celery stem, elodea
leaf and the spinach would be expected to
carry out photosynthesis based on the
presence of the chloroplasts.
5c. Chloroplasts are seen only in cells that
absorb sunlight and carry out
photosynthesis. SO, plant cells contain
organelles that relate to their unique role
as producers!
Bacterial
cells
Copy this
Venn
Diagram into
your
notebook.
Complete it
by writing in
the
characteristic
s of animal
cells, plant
cells, and
bacterial cells
Plant Cells
Animal Cells