Explain the process in brief by which the CO2 gas is get fixed up by the plant. Also write it's chemical equation.
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The process of carbon dioxide fixation or assimilation in plants is photosynthesis.
•Photosynthesis is the process by which plants form carbohydrates and oxygen, from carbon dioxide and water, in presence of sunlight.
•It occurs in chloroplast of plant's cell.
•Photosynthesis occurs in two steps - light reaction and dark reaction.
•Here, in the process energy from sunlight is converted into chemical energy.
•The chemical reaction of photosynthesis is given below -
6CO2 + 6H2O ---> C6H12O6 + 6O2
The process by which CO2 is fixed by plants is by the process of photosynthesis.
Photosynthesis is process by which plants take up carbon diaoxide from air and realease pure oxygen in atmosphere.
In this process plants take up sunlight to produce glucose from carbon diaoxide and water.
This glucose is converted to pyruvate which releases ATP by respiration and oxygen is also releases.
The equation of photosynthesis was first proposed by Cornelis van Neil :---
6CO2+6H2O------>C6H12O6+6O2.
This process happens in presence of light.