Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

The energy that plants capture from sunlight through photosynthesis provides the source of nearly all of humanity's food. Yet ...

Bacteria are among the most diverse and ancient forms of life on Earth. Yet, much of what is known about them comes from a ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

Photosynthesis in Higher Plants MCQs: Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) play a pivotal role in CBSE exams. They assess a student's comprehensive understanding, covering various topics efficiently. MCQs ...

Jon Chase: Photosynthesis, it's just a chemical reaction and there are four things that we needfor it to happen. Water, CO2 and the light source and chlorophyll are relevantreactions of course.

This image shows a comparison between the synthetic biology–engineered plant (right) and the wild-type plant. Dr. Liao’s team has developed a novel “McG plant” with a mechanism that recycles the ...

All life depends on the flow of energy, which gets passed from one life-form to another. And there is one creature that embodies more than most just how that happens. This is the Golden Jellyfish. A ...

The evolution of intelligent life around red dwarf stars is likely to be an uphill slog, due to the demands needed to jumpstart oxygenic photosynthesis. Given that red M-dwarf stars are by far the ...