photosynthesis

/foh-tuh-sin-thuh-sis/US // ˌfoʊ təˈsɪn θə sɪs //UK // (ˌfəʊtəʊˈsɪnθɪsɪs) //

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n.名词 noun

1
Biology, Biochemistry.
- : the complex process by which carbon dioxide, water, and certain inorganic salts are converted into carbohydrates by green plants, algae, and certain bacteria, using energy from the sun and chlorophyll.

Examples

Specifically, he was interested in the protein-based "reaction centers" in spinach leaves that are the basic mechanism for photosynthesis—the chemical process by which plants convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbohydrates.
Algae and plants use photosynthesis to turn sunlight into food.
According to the Washington Post, this happens because as the days shorten and turn frigid, it’s not worth it for some trees to expend energy to conduct photosynthesis.
In a steady state, most of the energy captured by photosynthesis is used up by the furnace of respiration and metabolism burning on Earth’s surface by its infrared layer of life.
There’s no sunlight beneath half a mile of ice, so of course there’s no photosynthesis.
Nevertheless, it was required, and at least it was more fun than studying algebra or photosynthesis.
Re-solarizing the food chain should be our goal in every way—taking advantage of the everyday miracle that is photosynthesis.
As the microbes moved toward the light to carry out photosynthesis, they projected the image of the stencil.
Timiriazeff, in his Croonian Lecture, was the first to see the connexion between photosynthesis and the Lagado research.
On the other hand, their ancestors, the green or yellow mastigota, form new plasm by photosynthesis like true cells.
There the miracle of life consists merely of the chemical process of plasmodomism by photosynthesis.
Like von Baeyer's hypothesis, this assumes that formaldehyde and oxygen are the first products of photosynthesis.
In general, starch is the final product of photosynthesis in most green plants; but there are many exceptions to this.

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Examples

Specifically, he was interested in the protein-based "reaction centers" in spinach leaves that are the basic mechanism for photosynthesis—the chemical process by which plants convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbohydrates.

Algae and plants use photosynthesis to turn sunlight into food.

According to the Washington Post, this happens because as the days shorten and turn frigid, it’s not worth it for some trees to expend energy to conduct photosynthesis.

In a steady state, most of the energy captured by photosynthesis is used up by the furnace of respiration and metabolism burning on Earth’s surface by its infrared layer of life.

There’s no sunlight beneath half a mile of ice, so of course there’s no photosynthesis.

Nevertheless, it was required, and at least it was more fun than studying algebra or photosynthesis.

Re-solarizing the food chain should be our goal in every way—taking advantage of the everyday miracle that is photosynthesis.

As the microbes moved toward the light to carry out photosynthesis, they projected the image of the stencil.

Timiriazeff, in his Croonian Lecture, was the first to see the connexion between photosynthesis and the Lagado research.

On the other hand, their ancestors, the green or yellow mastigota, form new plasm by photosynthesis like true cells.

There the miracle of life consists merely of the chemical process of plasmodomism by photosynthesis.

Like von Baeyer's hypothesis, this assumes that formaldehyde and oxygen are the first products of photosynthesis.

In general, starch is the final product of photosynthesis in most green plants; but there are many exceptions to this.