Plants and animals are mutually dependent on each other. Explain the energy-producing metabolic processes used by plants and animals, and name the products that result. Describe how animals benefit from the products of plant metabolism and how plants

benefit from the products of animal metabolism.

What will be an ideal response?


Plants produce sugars and oxygen during photosynthesis, using carbon dioxide and water in the process. Animals produce carbon dioxide and water during cellular respiration, using sugars and oxygen in the process. Animals provide plants with carbon dioxide, and plants provide animals with sugars and oxygen.

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How many single nucleotide polymorphisms

have been identified in humans? a. 10s b. 100s c. 1000s d. 100 000s e. 1 000 000s

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The receptors in a sour taste bud bind _____ which block ______ channels. This depolarizes the membrane because __________

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