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Ch. 37 - Soil and Plant Nutrition

Chapter 37, Problem 3

Mycorrhizae enhance plant nutrition mainly by a. absorbing water and minerals through the fungal hyphae. b. providing sugar to root cells, which have no chloroplasts. c. converting atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia. d. enabling the roots to parasitize neighboring plants.

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Hello everyone. And in today's video we have the following problem. Micro Rizzi utilizes thin and long blank to reach the nutrients store in the soils, small compartments and now we have were given a list of components of certain organisms that we need to use to fill up the blank. So now let's quickly be reminded, let's quickly recall what each of these components are so that we can use it to solve the problem so that we can fill in the blank beginning by answer choice B. Which is going to be sports. These sports are particles fungi use for reproduction. They spread them out so that they can reproduce. And so this is going this is not really going to help them reach nutrients store in the soil so we can cancel it out and move on to answer choice C. Which is going to be vova Which is a reproductive organ. Which again is not really going to help these micro rising to reach nutrients in the soil. So we can cancel it out as well on these olives with gills which is there are these compartments that allow them, they maximize sport production in certain fungi against four or particles in fungi use for reproduction. So these gills are really not going to help us reach nutrients store in the soil either. So we can actually cancel it out as well. And now moving on we have answer choice A. Is all that we have left, which is going to be hi fi. And these high fees are filaments which means that they're thin and lung structures that expand the surface area of these micro rising and they're used for obstruction. So since they're expanding the surface area, they allow for more absorption of nutrients store in the soil of fungi. And so this is actually going to fit in perfectly into the blank and it's going to be your final answer. Thank you very much for sticking around till the end of this video. I really hope it helped you and I hope to see you on the next one.