How Do Plants Produce Sugar

How Do Plants Produce Sugar?

Plants, unlike animals, can make their own food. They do this using a process called photosynthesis . During photosynthesis, plants produce glucose from simple inorganic molecules – carbon dioxide and water – using light energy.

Where do plants make the sugar?

leaf chloroplasts
Green plants manufacture glucose through a process that requires light, known as photosynthesis. This process takes place in the leaf chloroplasts. Carbon dioxide and water molecules enter a sequence of chemical reactions within the chloroplasts.Mar 18, 2011

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