How is photosynthesis indirectly responsible for helping a plant stand upright?
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In the case of plants, they use this energy from the sun to turn carbon dioxide and water into sugar. When we eat the sugar in the plants, we are indirectly absorbing some of the energy the sun gave to make the sugar in the first place.
Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, some bacteria, and some protistans use the energy from sunlight to produce sugar, which cellular respiration converts into ATP, the "fuel" used by all living things. The conversion of unusable sunlight energy into usable chemical energy, is associated with the actions of the green pigment chlorophyll. Most of the time, the photosynthetic process uses water and releases the oxygen that we absolutely must have to stay alive. Oh yes, we need the food as well!