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Introduction to Respiration

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Define:
(i) Photosynthesis

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Photosynthesis is the process by which plants prepare food by using carbon dioxide and water in the presence of chlorophyll and sunlight.
Oxygen is liberated as a byproduct during the process of photosynthesis.

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