Plants perform both photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
During photosynthesis, the plant converts solar energy into chemical form. Plant captures light that comes directly from the sun and through different ranges of reaction, using its energy to build sugar molecules known as glucose.
Further Explanation
Glucose consists of six oxygen atoms, six carbon atoms and twelve hydrogen atoms. When plant produces glucose molecules, it gets the carbon and oxygen it required to make the glucose molecules from carbon dioxide taken from the air.
Although there is no presence of hydrogen in carbon dioxide, therefore the plant uses water to replace hydrogen. The world is surrounded with large volume of water and every water molecules is made of two hydrogen and one oxygen atom.
For the plant to take the hydrogen needed to build molecules, it use the energy obtain from the sun to split the water molecule apart. During photosynthesis, plant consumes carbon dioxide water, and produces oxygen and glucose.
The glucose produced by the plant is important for cellular respiration. During cellular respiration, the presence of chemical energy in the glucose molecules is converted into a form that plant can utilize for reproduction and growth.
The first step of respiration is known as glycolysis, at this step the glucose molecule is broken down into molecules that are smaller also known as pyruvate and a little energy is also released in the form of ATP. The result of cellular respiration in plant is that it consumes oxygen and glucose and produces water, carbon dioxide and ATP energy molecules
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- plants
- photosynthesis
- cellular respiration
- oxygen
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