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11 years ago
What are the principle reactants and products of photosynthesis?
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11 years ago
6 CO2 + 12 H2O  ? C6H12O6 + 6 O2 + 6 H2O
Carbon Dioxide + Water  ? Glucose + Oxygen + water

fyi the + is not really a 'plus' but more of an and.
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11 years ago
Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, some bacteria, and some protistans use the energy from sunlight to produce sugar, which cellular respiration converts into ATP, the "fuel" used by all living things. The conversion of unusable sunlight energy into usable chemical energy, is associated with the actions of the green pigment chlorophyll. Most of the time, the photosynthetic process uses water and releases the oxygen that we absolutely must have to stay alive. Oh yes, we need the food as well!

We can write the overall reaction of this process as:
6H2O + 6CO2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6O2

Most of us don't speak chemicalese, so the above chemical equation translates as:

six molecules of water plus six molecules of carbon dioxide produce one molecule of sugar plus six molecules of oxygen
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