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Photosynthesis
Title: Photosynthesis
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 544 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Photosynthesis
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants and certain other
organisms use the energy of light to convert carbon dioxide and water into the
simple sugar glucose. In so doing, photosynthesis provides the basic energy source
for almost all organisms. Oxygen is extremely important to photosynthesis, which
most organisms depend on. Photosynthesis occurs in green plants, seaweeds, algae,
and certain bacteria. Chlorophyll is capable of converting active light energy into a
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…showed last 75 words of 544 total…that must be regenerated at the end of the reaction in order for the
process to continue. The light-independent reaction requires the presence of carbon
dioxide molecules, which enter the plant through pores in the leaf, diffuse through
the cell to the chloroplast, and disperse in the stroma. The light-independent reaction
begins in the stroma when these carbon dioxide molecules link to sugar molecules
called ribulose bisphosphate (RuBP) in a process known as carbon fixation.
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