Question

Explain the role of carbon dioxide play in plant life processes?

Answer 1

The role of carbon dioxide play in plant life processes are:

1. The fixing of carbon in biological form takes place within plant and other organisms known as producers – in a process called photosynthesis, by which energy from sunlight is converted into chemical form.
2. In photosynthesis, light energy helps to combine carbon dioxide and water to create the simplest of sugars, the carbohydrate molecules known as glucose (C6H12O6).
3. The carbohydrates then become the source of chemical energy that fuel living cells in all plants and animals.
4. In plants, some carbon remains as simple glucose for short term energy use, while some are converted to large complex molecules such as starch for longer term energy storage.