You are conducting an experiment on plant growth.You take a plant fresh from the soil that weighs 5 kg.Then you dry the plant overnight and determine the dry weight to be 1 kg.Of this dry weight,how much would you expect to be made up of organic molecules?

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The dry weight of a plant primarily consists of organic molecules, as water has been removed. Since the plant's dry weight is 1 kg (1000 g), and almost all of this weight would be organic molecules (cellulose, sugars, proteins, etc.), the correct answer is 960 g, allowing for a small percentage of minerals and other inorganic substances.

You Are Conducting an Experiment on Plant Growth