Plants Respire a Proportion of the Total Amount of Energy

question 36

Multiple Choice

Plants respire a proportion of the total amount of energy they fix during photosynthesis.How is this accounted for when considering productivity?

• A) The proportion is subtracted from the biomass
• B) Rauto is the term used to account for this proportion of energy lost
• C) The proportion is added to the total biomass
• D) No energy is lost during the process of photosynthesis

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Definitions:

Type II Error

A statistical error that occurs when a false null hypothesis is not rejected.

α

Denotes the level of significance in hypothesis testing; a threshold below which the p-value must fall for results to be considered statistically significant.

Type I Error

Occurs when a true null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected, falsely indicating that there is a significant effect when there is none.

Lowering Alpha

The process of reducing the alpha level, or the significance level, to decrease the likelihood of committing a Type I error in statistical hypothesis testing.