Answer 1:
The oxygen in the CO2, along with the
carbon in the CO2 and the hydrogen in
the H2O, are converted by the plant
into sugar, which contains carbon,
hydrogen, and oxygen.
You can read an answer that we have on our
database showing the way in which photosynthesis
works. There on the third paragraph you
will see how the oxygen in carbon dioxide is
combined with water, in order to get sugar and
free oxygen.
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Answer 2:
Photosynthesis is actually the name for a
series of interrelated processes, the
light-dependent reactions and the
light-independent (or dark) reactions. In a
nutshell, during the light reactions, energy from
photons is converted into
chemicals called ATP and NADPH through a
series of chemical reactions. One
of the chemical reactions requires electrons from
an outside source. The plant uses water to provide
these electrons via something called a oxidation-
reduction (redox) reaction, and a byproduct
of this reaction is oxygen. The dark
reactions use the oxygen and carbon in carbon
dioxide and the NADPH and
ATP from the light-dependent reactions to create
sugars and starches for the
plant which will be used in other reactions in the
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