Life energy: photosynthesis

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  • Photosynthesis - combination of water, sunlight used by plants to make their own food and oxygen
  • Photo means sunlight light energy is called proton
  • Photosynthesis - a process of food making done by plants and other autotrophic organisms
  • Synthesis - process of making food from sunlight
  • Plants need 3 things carbon dioxide, water, sunlight
  • Plants - producer of food in return
    Convert carbon dioxide to oxygen specific sugar that plant produce is glucose or main product oxygen is not original product
  • Photosynthesis takes place in the leaves on the presence of chlorophyll
  • Mesophyll has the most number of chloroplast that contain chlorophyll important in traping light energy form the sun
  • Vascular bundles - phloem and xylem transporting vessels of manufactured food and water
  • Light dependent reaction - happens in the presence of light energy harvested during this stage is ATP ( adenosine triphosphate)
  • Calvin cycle ( dark reaction) - light independent phrase that takes place in the stomata converts carbon dioxide into sugar