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 ...

Photosynthesis in plants and a few bacteria is responsible for feeding nearly all life on Earth. It allows energy from the sun to be converted into a storable form, usually glucose, which plants ...

These let carbon dioxide reach the other cells in the leaf, and also let the oxygen produced in photosynthesis leave the leaf easily. The water needed for photosynthesis is absorbed through the ...