How do plants make their food? what are the raw materials for photosynthesis
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Plants make their own food by the process of photosynthesis. The raw materials used for photosynthesis are chlorophyll, water, sunlight and soil.
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Plants use sunlight to transform light energy into chemical energy, which is a key component in their food synthesis.
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- Plants can create their own food by harnessing the sun's energy. Photosynthesis is the name for this process. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is taken in by leaves through stomata and used to make carbohydrates, primarily glucose and starch, during this process.
- Both light-dependent and light-independent processes are found in photosynthesis. In plants, light reactions take place inside the chloroplast thylakoids, which contain chlorophyll pigments. As light energy penetrates the pigment molecules, it energises the electrons within them, which are then shunted to an electron transport chain by the thylakoid membrane. Each step in the electron transport chain lowers the energy of each electron, which is then used to produce ATP and NADPH.
- Meanwhile, each chlorophyll molecule replaces the lost electron with a water electron, thus separating water molecules and resulting in the creation of oxygen.
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