Biology – Spring Semester Unit 1B:Cellular Energetics Digital Lesson 1B.1 Name: Class Period: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Plants are not consumers; they are , which means they don’t eat food. They must make their own food and so they are referred to as . They use the sun’s energy to produce glucose in a process called . The equation for photosynthesis is: 6CO2 + 6H2O + sunlight --> C6H12O6 + 6O2 This equation is not hard if you think about what’s going on. Let’s break it down. loading...
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Biology – Spring Semester Unit 1B:Cellular Energetics Digital Lesson 1B.1 The second part of photosynthesis, the , happens in the of the chloroplast. It is here that ATP is used to make food () for the plant!