Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is the process that plants, with green leaves, to produce glucode, which can go on to be converted into energy, through respiration. It involves the conversion of water ($H_{2}O$) and carbon dioxide ($CO_{2}$) into glucose ($C_{6}H_{12}O_{6}$) and oxygen ($O_{2}$), in the presence of light energy.

Plants obtain the water through cuticles in the leaves; carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; and light energy from the sun through through chloroplasts in the leaves - this means photosynthesis cannot happen at night.

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