Campbell Biology (10th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321775651
ISBN 13: 978-0-32177-565-8

Chapter 10 - Test Your Understanding - Level 3 - Synthesis/Evaluation - Page 209: 8

Answer

While living trees do take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, they also give off some by doing cellular respiration and photorespiration. The greater production of carbon dioxide is from dead trees decomposing, which give off carbon dioxide as fungi and other microbes digest them and perform cellular respiration.

Work Step by Step

While this chapter talks a lot about plants, this question asks you to review Ch. 9 and to think about not only plants but about cellular respiration in other organisms as well.
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