Question

Carbon is incorporated into life-forms through___________?

Answer 1

Carbon is incorporated into life forms through photosynthesis.

Photosynthesis: The process of preparing food by green plants with the help of green pigment found in them called chlorophyll, sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.

The chemical reaction of photosynthesis is as follows:

$\underset{\mathrm{Carbon}\mathrm{dioxide}}{6{\mathrm{CO}}_2}+\underset{\mathrm{Water}}{6{\mathrm{H}}_2\mathrm{O}}+\mathrm{Chlorophyll}\stackrel{\mathrm{Sunlight}}{\to }\underset{\mathrm{Glucose}}{{\mathrm{C}}_6{\mathrm{H}}_{12}{\mathrm{O}}_6}+\underset{\mathrm{Oxygen}}{6{\mathrm{O}}_2}$

Chlorophyll is found in the mesophyll tissue of the leaf which traps the photons of light coming from sunlight to reduce the carbon dioxide into glucose.