There were certain things that grabbed my interest, such as photosynthesis, such as us living off plants and plants living off us. You look at everything in that light - so if I'm looking at ice cubes, I might start thinking about absolute zero, or Fahrenheit and Celsius. There's so much that can make me think about science.

American Musician

John E. Walker

Biological energy comes from the sun. Light energy harvested by photosynthesis in chloroplasts and phototropic bacteria becomes stored in carbohydrates and fats. This stored energy can be released by oxidative metabolism in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and used as fuel for other biological processes.

English Scientist

Neri Oxman

In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this chance to use the glass to harness solar energy and allow the architecture to respond to the light and heat of the sun, to create photosynthesis and generate solar energy?

American Architect

Cynthia Kenyon

A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.

American Scientist

Billy Crystal

I could always improvise. Some of my teachers remember me standing in front of the class with a flower on my head, talking about photosynthesis. I'd stop and say, 'Is this working for any of you?' The kids were like, 'What is he doing?

American Comedian

Julian Schnabel

This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image.

American Artist

Janine Benyus

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.

American Writer

Jeff Vandermeer

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

Craig Venter

The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.

Vaclav Smil

No human civilization could ever sever our dependence on photosynthesis.

Czechoslovakian Scientist

Mainly used in science education and academic writing about biology or ecology.

Academic Term

Photosynthesis is a biological process, not an action done by a person, so avoid personifying it.

No Personification

Often used to describe the importance of plants in the environment and the earth's ecosystems.

Natural Importance

 But what can trees do to help in this fight? And how do they sequester carbon in the first place? Like all plants, trees consume atmospheric carbon through a chemical reaction called photosynthesis. This process uses energy from sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen

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 which is the compartment of the plant cell that does photosynthesis the nutrient most plans struggle to get enough of is nitrogen making it very precious and since the chloroplasts are the basis of life in the plant kingdom and is of high importance leaves are not

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 important thing when you get in the midst of something like this is not to actually become a part of the food chain in action but what you can see is okay sunlight photosynthesis food oxygen right up the food chain to drive and power the great ocean predators and

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 So what exactly is stopping these trees from growing taller, forever? It all comes down to sap. In order for trees to grow, they need to bring sugars obtained from photosynthesis and nutrients brought in through the root system to wherever growth is happening.

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 The dust from the impact reduced or stopped photosynthesis from many plants, starving herbivores and the carnivores that preyed on them. Within a short time span, three-quarters of the world's species disappeared forever, and the giant dinosaurs,

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 is believed to be the largest single-celled organism in the world thanks to its unique biological hacks. Its surface area is enhanced with a frond-like structure. It uses photosynthesis to assemble its own food molecules and it's coenocytic.

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 but can follow multiple pathways at the same time. Some years ago, the world of science was shocked when a paper was published showing experimental evidence that quantum coherence takes place inside bacteria, carrying out photosynthesis.

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 you see the whites and the yellows and stuff those are all microbes there's a little crab hello crab so unlike life at the surface of the earth where the base of the food chain is photosynthesis at the ocean's depths and in many of the

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 Plants in many natural ecosystems need help to have sex. Like many of us, they're too busy to find a relationship. They have too much photosynthesis to do, and they can't find the time to evolve feet and walk to a singles bar.

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 Another was a bacterial cell that converted solar energy into sugar molecules through photosynthesis. A third used oxygen gas to break down materials like sugar and release its energy into a form useful for life activities.