Based on your data, which type of soil do you think is best for agriculture? Explain your answer. Loam would be the best kind of soil to plant crops in because it is permeable but it takes low amounts of water to irrigate the soil. Farmers often have problems with soil erosion when they clear their fields after the growing season. Soil type is one factor that influences erosion.
The shape of a cell is related to its function because of the adaptations made throughout time to make the cell as efficient as it can be. There are two types of cells, eukaryotic cells, which are generally plant and animal cells and prokaryotic cells which relate to bacteria and fungi, which undergo asexual production. Plants are anchored into the ground by roots. The function of roots is the transportation of water and mineral ions from the soil into the xylem to transport around the plant. The roots have an outer layer of cells called root hair cells that have a specific shape that makes the uptake of water and mineral ions more efficient.
Inorganic ions are charged particles that do not contain carbon atoms bonded together. While organisms are mainly built from carbon-containing molecules, their functions rely on inorganic ions such as nitrate, hydrogen and calcium. This essay will detail some of the roles of specific ions and describe how animals, plants and bacteria use them. Productivity in an ecosystem in the soil is limited in part by the availability of fixed nitrogen in the soil. Nitrogen fixing bacteria in the roots of leguminous plants reduce atmospheric nitrogen to ammonium using ATP and reduced NAD.
However there are ways we can solve these problems by following sustainable agriculture strategies. In Cudgen farmers have been working together
The moisture in the zone is called groundwater; it seeps slowly through the ground following the pull of gravity and guided by rocks structure. The saturated zone is referred to as the water table. The orientation and slope of the water table usually conform roughly to the slope of the land surface above, nearly always approaching closer to the surface in valley bottoms and being more distant from it beneath a ridge or hill. Where the water table intersects Earth’s surface, water flows out. A well dug into the zone of saturation fills with water up to the level of the water table.
In plants the most important cells in which play a part in the intake of substances, are the root hair cells. Their job is to supply the plant with water and nutrients from the soil and transport them to all of the plant as it is needed. These cells use active transport in order to intake minerals, such as potassium,
Properties of Water Property | Importance | Examples | Solvent | Metabolic processes in all organisms rely on chemicals being able to react together in solution. | 70-95% of cytoplasm is water. Dissolved chemicals take part in processes such as respiration and photosynthesis in living organisms. | Liquid | The movement of material around organisms both in cells and on a large scale in multicellular organisms requires a liquid transport medium. | Blood in animals and the vascular tissues in plants use water as a liquid transport medium.
The answer is fertilizer. It makes your grass grow faster and healthier, but is grass the only thing it helps to grow? People may not know it, but fertilizers’ two main chemicals that help grass grow are called nitrates and phosphates. Nitrates and phosphates make your grass grow nice and green. But, when you fertilize your lawn too much, fertilize right before it rains, or if you live on the water, it is easy for left over nitrates and phosphates to trickle their way down into the ground water.
By using the genes from two bacteria producing organisms such as Alcaligenes Eutrophus, they could insert them into cress plants with the aim of these plants producing the PHB. This process worked and the plants and some of their offspring produced around 14% of the dry weight as PHB. Although this is not as high yielding as when it is produced in the petri dishes, it is a much more economically viable method of production and hence would give a much more substantial impact to society. Chemically PHB is from a group of biopolymers known as the polyhyroxyalkanoates. Figure 1 below shows other examples of biopolymers in
It converts into enzymes to help digest food. It is found in foods such as meat, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, nuts and soy. Oils and fats are essential in our diet for good health. They aid in energy production, cell building, oxygen transport throughout the body, blood clotting and the production of active hormone like substances called prostaglandins. Unsaturated fats are found in olive and canola oils.