Biology An-Nahl

SECTION 2 : FOOD & NUTRITION

Prepared by : Teacher Sue L/O/G/O

Contents
2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Making food from sunlight Gaining water and nutrients Human food and diet Digestion in Humans

Making food from sunlight

Learning Objectives
At the end of the lesson students should be able to : Describe the process of photosynthesis List the products of photosynthesis

HOW do plants make their own food?

How???
photosynthesis the leaf water carbon dioxide Light energy chlorophyll glucose oxygen

Atomic Shuffle

Evidence that light is needed for photosynthesis

The leaf on the left is attached to a plant in light. The leaf on the right has been tested for starch. The blue-black colour shows that starch has been produced only where light shone on the leaf Testing a leaf for starch

The leaf structure

The structures in a leaf are arranged so that carbon dioxide and water flow into the leaf and glucose and oxygen can leave easily

Use of Food

Glucose : As a supply of energy to make fats and oils (in seed)

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Made into sucrose - to be made into starch - to be converted into cellulose

To make proteins - glucose combined with nitrates

To make chlorophyll - Glucose combined with magnesium

Integration & Islamization (I2)

Who governs the Plant? Plants are organisms without any traces of consciousness and reason such as decisionmaking or free will. But as you can see from the information provided this far, the processes carried out by plants do require considerable consciousness and reason. Indeed, plants succeed in performing activities that human beings cannot replicate with their conscious knowledge and advanced technology, and in spaces of time as brief as a millionth of a second. So to whom does this intelligencewhich human beings come nowhere near approachingbelong?

Since the day they were first created, plants have been behaving in the manner inspired in them by Allah, with His infinite knowledge and intelligence. Each of the plants cell, is told how to behave at every moment. This is revealed in a verse from the Quran: It is Allah Who created the seven heavens and of the Earth the same number, the Command descending down through all of them, so that you might know that Allah has power over all things and that Allah encompasses all things in His knowledge. (Surat at-Talaq:12)

Whenever Allah wills a thing to come about, it is enough for Him just to say, "Be!" As we are told in verses of the Quran: His command when He desires a thing is just to say to it, Be! and it is. (Surah Ya Sin: 82)

Questions
Plants make their own food using ________ energy, carbon dioxide from the air and ______ from the soil. The process is called ________ . Leaves look ________ because they contain chlorophyll. The __________ traps light energy. Most chlorophyll is in the _______ cells near the top of the surface.

Questions
1 The roots of green plants take up nitrates from the soil. What are the nitrates used to make? A Fat B Glucose C Protein D Starch Why is sunlight is necessary for photosynthesis? A B C D It is a catalyst It is a source of energy It provides nutrients It provides oxygen

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