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Seven Life Processes of a Plant
Seven Life Processes of a Plant. All living things, including plants and animals, perform different life processes in order to ensure the survival of the species. Plants need nourishment, a way to excrete waste material, ways to reproduce and create new plants, means of individual growth, and ways to move and breathe, all of which are accomplished...
All living things, including plants and animals, perform different life processes in order to ensure the survival of the species. Plants need nourishment, a way to excrete waste material, ways to reproduce and create new plants, means of individual growth, and ways to move and breathe, all of which are accomplished through seven life processes.
Plants are sensitive to changes in their environment, and this sensitivity allows them to respond accordingly and increase their chances of surviving and flourishing in that environment. A plant can gradually grow towards a light source, for example, where it benefits from the increased light.
Plants get rid of their waste by various means. Waste can be stored in the vacuoles of plant cells or in organs that will at some point fall off the plant--autumn leaves, for example. Alternatively, plants can secrete waste into the soil.
Plants need the chemical elements hydrogen, oxygen and carbon, found in air and water, in order to produce starches and sugars via the process of photosynthesis. These starches and sugars feed the plant and allow it to grow in size.
