Can Plants survive with no sunlight

5/27/00 Biology Research Project: ³Can a plant survive without sunlight, if it¹s fed the glucose that the sunlight provides?² Jon Goodman In my project, I explored the concept of the necessity of sunlight in the survival of plants. Sunlight provides plants with energy that, in turn, will produce sugars through the carbon fixation cycle in the form of glucose. Glucose is used as the ³food² of plants, and is broken down by cell respiration and …

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