Plants need food to respire, grow and reproduce. Unlike animals, plants are able to make their own food by the process of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis takes place in the part of the plant cell ...

This process, called photosynthesis, is essential to the global carbon cycle and organisms that conduct photosynthesis represent the lowest level in most food chains (Figure 1). Most living things ...

(6-8) Plants, algae (including phytoplankton), and many microorganisms use the energy from light to make sugars (food) from carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and water through the process of ...