Photosynthesis

• Photosynthesis


  The process in which plants make food (glucose) and oxygen from the sun, water from the soil and carbon dioxide from atmosphere or plants internal respiration
• Is photosynthesis catabolic or anabolic?


  Anabolic: involves building up of smaller molecules into larger molecules
• What type of nutrition is photosynthesis?

  Autotrophic
• Photosynthesis chemical formula

  6CO2+6H2O →→→ C6H12O6+6O2
• Plant organ responsible for photosynthesis

  Leaf
• Where are most chloroplasts found in the leaf?

  Edge of the palisade layer (top)