Suppose the phloem of a seed plant is damaged and does not function properly.
How will this most directly affect the plant?
a) Water will be released from the leaves.
b) The plant will become rigid.
c) Water will not be taken up by the roots.
d) Food will not be carried away from the leaves.

This is a typical grassland food web. it is also a small picture of an important cycle on earth: the carbon cycle. describe how the carbon gets into this food web. a) bacteria and fungi, the decomposers, recycle carbon from dead organisms. b) carbon is found in the grass and is passed from one level to the next in this food web. eliminate c) all living things give off carbon dioxide as a by-product of respiration and it is released into the atmosphere. d) plants use carbon dioxide as a reactant in photosynthesis, to make usable chemical energy in the form of a sugar.