Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is the process that plants, with green leaves, to produce glucose, 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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