photosynthesis
- Created by: Molly Amy
- Created on: 05-08-19 16:55
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- photosynthesis
- process in which plants produce food
- happens in leaves of all green plants
- photosynthesis happens inside chloroplasts found in leaf cells
- produces glucose using sunlight
- happens in leaves of all green plants
- this absorbs sunlight and uses engery to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose, oxygen is also produced
- chemical engery created is released when glucose is broken down during repiration
- cholroplasts contain pigment called chlorophyll
- photosynthesis happens inside chloroplasts found in leaf cells
- chloroplasts are found in palisade layer near top of leaf
- so light can get to this layer there is a transparent layer upper epidermis
- leaves have a net work of vascular bundles these are transport vessels
- these are called xylem and phloem
- they deliver water and other nutrients and takeaway the glucose produced by photosynthesis
- waxy cuticle helps reduce water loss by evaporation
- adaptation of leaves for gas exchange also make photosynthesis more efficent as the lower suface is full of holes called stomata which diffuse co2 directly into leaf
- waxy cuticle helps reduce water loss by evaporation
- they deliver water and other nutrients and takeaway the glucose produced by photosynthesis
- these are called xylem and phloem
- leaves have a net work of vascular bundles these are transport vessels
- so light can get to this layer there is a transparent layer upper epidermis
- produces glucose using sunlight
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