Product of photosynthesis is transported from the leaves to various parts of the plants and stored in some cell before being utilised. What are the cells/tissues that store them?

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The food gets stored in specialised parenchymatous cells present either in roots and stems or in their modifications in the form of a polysaccharide called starch.

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Tissue that transports products of photosynthesis from the leaves where they are synthesized to other parts of the plant, are called:

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(a) The category of organisms that prepare their own food from basic raw materials.

(b) The kind of plastids found in the mesophyll cells of the leaf.

(d) The first form of food substance produced during photosynthesis.

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(h) The tissue that transport manufactured type of starch from leaves to all parts of the plants.

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(a) Dark reaction of photosynthesis occurs during night time.

(b) Immediate product of photosynthesis is glucose.

(d) Photosynthesis requires enzymes.

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(j) Algae are autotrophs.

What percentage of sun's energy falling on the leaves of green plants are utilised by the plants in the process of photosynthesis and stored as chemical energy of food?

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