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(i) What is the internal energy reserve in plants and animals ?
(ii) How desert plants perform photosynthesis if their stomata remain closed during the day ?
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(i) Internal Energy reserve in plants is starch and in animals it is glycogen.
(ii) Desert plants take up carbon dioxide at night and prepare an intermediate which is acted upon by the energy absorbed by the chlorophyll during the day.
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