{"id":1676,"date":"2018-01-04T15:38:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/?page_id=1676"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:38:57","slug":"plants-vs-producers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/plants-vs-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPlants\u201d vs. \u201cProducers\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because plants are so familiar, some students may think that all producers are plants.\u00a0 Though plants are generally the most visible producers, many non-plant microbial species are also producers (e.g., photosynthetic algae and bacteria).\u00a0 This distinction can wait until the term \u201cproducer\u201d is introduced in Part One of the pathway.\u00a0 Until that point, students may not have an understanding of producers, so using \u201cplants\u201d in place of \u201cproducers\u201d may be necessary.\u00a0\u00a0 Because algae are central to the pathway and are non-plant producers, the distinction becomes important as the algae role unfolds in Part One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because plants are so familiar, some students may think that all producers are plants.\u00a0 Though plants are generally the most visible producers, many non-plant microbial species are also producers (e.g., photosynthetic algae and bacteria).\u00a0 This distinction can wait until the term \u201cproducer\u201d is introduced in Part One of the pathway.\u00a0 Until that point, students may<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/plants-vs-producers\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1676","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1676\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}