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The major consumers of carbon dioxide are___________.


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The green plants are the major consumers of atmospheric carbon dioxide, as they prepare food by photosynthesis

Photosynthesis :

  1. The process of fixing atmospheric carbon by trapping the sun's energy in biological form.
  2. In this process, the light energy is converted to chemical energy.
  3. In photosynthesis, the carbon dioxide along with water is converted to carbohydrate molecule (Glucose) with the release of oxygen in the atmosphere in the presence of chlorophyll and sunlight.

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