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photosynthesis
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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 |