The Basics of Photosynthesis

The first step is to draw up water and minerals. You're going to set the minerals aside for other day to day uses. The second step is to take in carbon dioxide. Next you're going to use the energy that you got from the sun to split the water molecules. Finally,you're going to discard that oxygen from that water, hold on to that hydrogen and combine that with the carbon dioxide to form a sugar. That's photo synthesis. We did it. Did it. And you didn't even have to give us a long explanation of what you do on your vacations before we got to the recipe. Eexactly. Oh no, yes, exactly, exactly.

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