Sugar is the finished product, and wherever sunlight is falling on green plants, whether directly or through a layer of cloud, its manufacture is going on.
Since we depend for our food, and so for our life, on the sugar-making activities of green plants, it will be worth our while to think for a moment of the slowness with which the process goes on.
We saw in Chapter III that protein is manufactured originally by the living cells of green plants.
Trees, green plants of all kinds, and some animals remain fixed in one spot practically all their lives.
Let us next try to find out why insects live among and upon flowering green plants.
Proteins can apparently be manufactured in any of the cells of green plants, the presence of light not seeming to be a necessary factor.
With these few exceptions bacteria are dependent on organic compounds for their carbon and cannot use CO{2} as green plants do.
The cell wall is not so dense, relatively, as that of green plants, but is thicker than the outer covering of protozoa.
It rose on the six columns of air which took the place of wheels and slid across the field of dark-green plants, leaving the parachute deflated across a number of rows, and a trail of crushed-down plants where it had moved.
He took Allison's elaborate pocket blaster and threw it away among the monotonous rows of olive-green plants.
The muddy man, clutching the attache case tightly, waded through the olive-green plants to the car and climbed in.
Not only so, but the evident parallelism between this absorption of light and that by the chlorophyll of green plants, is completed by the demonstration that oxygen is set free by these bacteria--i.
The energy liberated during the oxidation of the nitrogen is regarded as splitting the carbon dioxide molecule,--in green plants it is the energy of the solar rays which does this.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "green plants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
