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Photosynthesis Lab

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If you were a plant how would you live? Would you be a heterotrophs or autotrophs, either consuming other organisms or making your own? How could you make your own food if you were a plant, not by ordering at a fast food restaurant but instead something more genetic, like Photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is when plants use its chloroplast to make Glucose(Sugar) or Oxygen. This process takes water, sunlight, and carbon. The formula for Photosynthesis is 6CO2+H2O+Sun = C6H12O6+6O2 or in word terms, Carbon+Water+Sun = Sugar and Oxygen. Plants use this to make food for themselves while producing Oxygen for other organisms like us. All this happens in the chloroplast using its main source of energy, the sun. Without Plants producing Oxygen and animals/humans producing Carbon dioxide for plants to use during photosynthesis would make it hard for living things on earth. This is why It's important to know about plants and how they work! …show more content…

Heterotrophs eat other animals or things to gain their protein, while autotrophs gain protein by making it. When plants go into photosynthesis they use part of their cell called a chloroplast. Sun enters the chloroplast at the thylakoid or granum(This is also called the light-dependent reaction) that sunlight is also mixed with water and Co2 throughout the cell and turned into glucose and oxygen. Three of the main reactants of Photosynthesis are carbon, water, and light, Also know as 6H2O+6CO2+Sun. These turn into two products, C6H12O6+6O2. There are also two big reactions that happen in photosynthesis, light-independent, and light-dependent. Light-dependent occurs in the Granum while the light-independent occurs in the

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