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Effect of light on photosynthesis.
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Aim: Effect of light on photosynthesis. What is photosynthesis? Plants need and use the same light of foods as animals but while animals have to eat other things to get their food, plants make it themselves. The way they do this is called photosynthesis. The other ways that plants are different from animals, such as having leaves and root or being green, they are all linked with photosynthesis. In photosynthesis, plants take carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil, and use the energy from the sunlight to convert them into food. The first food they make is glucose but that can later be changed into other food types. The sunlight is absorbed by the green pigment chlorophyll. Carbon hydrates contain the elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen as in glucose. The carbon and oxygen could be supplied by carbon dioxide from the air. In addition, the hydrogen could come from the...
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