Photosynthesis

When you and me eat, we find our food. When plants eat, they make their own food and energy. They make their food and energy through a process called photosynthesis. Through photosynthesis oxygen is also produced. Photosynthesis is "a process in which green plants synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water....The reverse of this reaction provides energy for plants, for animals that eat plants, for animals that eat animals that eat plants" for animals that eat animals that eat animals that eat plants, etc. (Levine 726)
All humans rely on these plants to produce oxygen from photosynthesis. The presence of light and of the green pigment chlorophyll makes the change of carbon dioxide and water to glucose and oxygen possible. It was Jan Ingenhouz with Jean Senebier in Geneva that founded the basic gist of the theory of photosynthesis in plants.

The first step of photosynthesis is the absorption of light by a
chlorophyll molecule. "The energy......

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