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Photosynthesis is the process by which plants produce sugar (glucose) using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. This sugar is then stored or used as energy for the plant's growth and metabolism.
Plants convert kinetic energy from the sun into the potential energy of sugar through photosynthesis. This process involves using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to produce glucose and oxygen. The sunlight is absorbed by chlorophyll in the plant's leaves, which initiates a series of chemical reactions that ultimately result in the formation of sugar.
Oxygen and sugar are products of the process of photosynthesis, which occurs in the chloroplasts of plant cells. In this process, carbon dioxide and water are used to produce glucose (sugar) and oxygen using sunlight as an energy source.
Six water molecules (H2O) and six Carbon Dioxide molecules (CO2) are broken apart using energy that originally comes from the sun. The resulting atoms are reformed to make one glucose molecule (C6H12O6), and six oxygen molecules (O2). There are a several steps to this reaction, but you only asked about where the atoms come from to form the sugar.
Chloroplasts use a process called photosynthesis to convert sunlight into sugar. This process involves capturing sunlight with pigments like chlorophyll, using the energy to split water molecules, and then combining the hydrogen from water with carbon dioxide to produce sugar molecules. These sugar molecules are then used as energy sources for the plant.