Search for crossword answers and clues
Iggy, this picture you doctored to make us look like a prom couple is of no use to our study on ...
Answer for the clue "Iggy, this picture you doctored to make us look like a prom couple is of no use to our study on ... ", 14 letters:
photosynthesis
Alternative clues for the word photosynthesis
Word definitions for photosynthesis in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It is a raw material necessary for photosynthesis . ▪ Leaves are a rich source of vitamin C and the vitamin is particularly concentrated within chloroplasts, the organelles of photosynthesis . ▪ Membrane damage can slow down ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. synthesis of compounds with the aid of radiant energy (especially in plants)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Photosynthesis \Pho`to*syn"the*sis\, n. (Plant Physiol.) The process of constructive metabolism by which carbohydrates are formed from water vapor and the carbon dioxide of the air in the chlorophyll-containing tissues of plants exposed to the action of ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy, normally from the Sun , into chemical energy that can be later released to fuel the organisms' activities ( energy transformation ). This chemical energy is stored in ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context biology English) The process by which plants and other photoautotrophs generate carbohydrates and oxygen from carbon dioxide, water, and light energy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1898, loan-translation of German Photosynthese , from photo- "light" (see photo- ) + synthese "synthesis" (see synthesis ). Another early word for it was photosyntax .\n\n[T]he body of the work has been rendered into English with fidelity, the only change ...
Usage examples of photosynthesis.
A more detailed explanation of photosynthesis and oxidative phosphorylation can be found in Donald Voet and Judith G.
Ultimately, almost all of the carbon fixed by phytoplankton photosynthesis is recycled back to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
This was a living system based not on photosynthesis but on chemosynthesis, an arrangement that biologists would have dismissed as preposterous had anyone been imaginative enough to suggest it.
Leaders and prophets dared to inveigh against mechanization and against the prevalent intellectualistic scientific culture, and against artificial photosynthesis.
So is the supply of sugars from those little photosynthesis factories we call leaves.
Up here, I could feel the heat from the sun, could lose myself in the complex ticktock of photosynthesis, rejoice in the harvesting of energy.
Green-plant photosynthesis utilizes light in the red and the violet parts of the solar spectrum to break down water, build up carbohydrates and do other planty things.
They absorbed water molecules, supped on the hydrogen, and released the oxygen as waste, and in so doing invented photosynthesis.
Those are the organelles that live inside plant cells and give them the ability to use sunlight for photosynthesis.
There was rote memorization about the Periodic Table of the Elements, levers and inclined planes, green plant photosynthesis, and the difference between anthracite and bituminous coal.
They utilize such energy in a way similar to that of green plant photosynthesis, transforming carbon dioxide into carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins which are then used as food by a surrounding community of other animals.
Ash's people had exchanged his ability to make things grow for a compensatory ability to create by photosynthesis and other processes.
Eventually, those algae became the chloroplasts that now handle the processes of photosynthesis in plants.
If they removed chloroplasts from plant cells, again the consequence would be widespread death, catastrophe, for plant photosynthesis provided the raw material, the food, for all animal life.
Three and a half billion years ago the cyanobacteria developed photosynthesis -- using the energy of sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.