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carbon dioxide | a toxic gas produced by burning carbon and organic compounds and by respiration. |
oxygen | A colorless, gaseous element that abounds in the atmosphere. |
glucose | A monosaccharide sugar that serves as the main source of energy and as an important metabolic substrate for most living things. Its chemical formula is C6H12O6 |
photosynthesis | The synthesis of complex organic material using carbon dioxide, water, inorganic salts, and light energy captured by light-absorbing pigments, such as chlorophyll and other accessory pigments. |
autothrophs | an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide. |
chloroplast | (in green plant cells) a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place. |
chlorophyll | The green pigment found in the chloroplasts of higher plants and in cells of photosynthetic |
stoma | A tiny pore in a plant leaf surrounded by a pair of guard cells that regulate its opening and closure, and serves as the site for gas exchange. |
guard cells | plant cells occurring in pairs in the epidermis, flanking each stoma. |