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photosynthesis
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| carbon dioxide | |
| oxygen | the chemical element of atomic number 8 and the life-supporting component of the air. Oxygen forms about 20 percent of the earth's |
| glucose | a simple sugar that is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates. |
| photosynthesis | the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. |
| autotrophs | an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide |
| chlorophyll | a green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis |
| chloroplast | (in green plant cells) a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place. |
| stoma | |
| guard cell |