• Green plants make the carbohydrate?glucose?from the raw materials?carbon dioxide?and?water
• At the same time?oxygen?is made and released as a waste product
• The reaction requires?energy?which is obtained by the pigment?chlorophyll?trapping light from the Sun
• So photosynthesis can be defined as?the process by which plants manufacture carbohydrates from raw materials using energy from light
• It can be summed up in the following equation:

Photosynthesis word equation

How plants get the materials they need

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