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Lesson: Chapter 2 — Photosynthesis

2.3. Why photosynthesis matters 4 of 4

Question 4

What is photosynthesis’s part in the carbon cycle?

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It brings carbon out of the air and into living things. Respiration, decay and burning send it back the other way, and between them the cycle turns.

Photosynthesis and respiration are each other run backwards: one takes CO2 and water and makes glucose and oxygen, the other does exactly the reverse.

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