Photosynthesis

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Photosynthesis
  1. IMPORTANCE
    1. Prevents starvation
      1. Gives humans oxyqen
        1. Helps the food chain continue
          1. Prevents dehydration
            1. Helps precipitation
              1. There would be no plants, so we'd die
                1. Crops die without this reaction, so we would have no source of food
                2. WHAT?
                  1. Photosynthesis - the process plants use to make food, producing the by-products of oxygen and glucose
                  2. HOW?
                    1. Photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplasts of a leaf cell.
                    2. WHERE?
                      1. Chloroplasts containing (the green pigment) chlorophyll transfers energy from the Sun to power the reaction.
                      2. PRODUCERS & COMSUMERS:
                        1. A producer is an organism that produces its own nutrients.
                          1. EXAMPLES OF PRODUCERS: A plant, or a bacteria.
                          2. A consumer is an organism that has to eat another organism to survive. Once the organism is broken nutrients is then released into to system.
                            1. EXAMPLES OF CONSUMERS: A Venus fly trap, or an animal.
                          3. IN & OUT
                            1. Water:
                              1. The water enters the plant through the root hair cells and is transported throughout the plant in the xylem tube. However, the water exits the plant as it evaporates through the leaves.
                              2. Gases:
                                1. The gases, carbon dioxide and oxygen, diffuse in and out of the plant using the stomata on the underside of the leaf. Carbon dioxide goes in and results in oxygen coming out.
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