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    Plants need mineral ions from the soil to produce biological molecules like proteins, lipids, and DNA through photosynthesis. These molecules contain elements beyond just carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, including nitrogen, magnesium, and others. Without a source of these mineral elements, plants cannot photosynthesize or grow properly. Roots absorb mineral ions from the soil to provide the elements needed for photosynthesis and growth.

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    Plants need mineral ions from the soil to produce biological molecules like proteins, lipids, and DNA through photosynthesis. These molecules contain elements beyond just carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, including nitrogen, magnesium, and others. Without a source of these mineral elements, plants cannot photosynthesize or grow properly. Roots absorb mineral ions from the soil to provide the elements needed for photosynthesis and growth.

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    GRADE 8

    BIOLOGY NOTES
    TOPICS: 2.7 AND 2.12

    Structure of the Leaf

    1
    The Need for Mineral Ions

    • Photosynthesis produces carbohydrates, but plants contain many other types of


    biological molecule; such as proteins, lipids and nucleic acid (DNA).
    • As plants do not eat, they need to make these substances themselves
    Carbohydrates contain the elements carbon, hydrogen and oxygen but proteins,
    for example, contain nitrogen as well .
    • Other chemicals in plants contain different elements as well, for example
    chlorophyll contains magnesium and nitrogen.
    • This means that without a source of these elements, plants cannot
    photosynthesise or grow properly.
    • Plants obtain these elements in the form of mineral ions actively absorbed
    from the soil by root hair cells.
    • ‘Mineral’ is a term used to describe any naturally occurring inorganic substance.

    2
    Adaptations of Leaf for Photosynthesis

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