Photosynthesis And Photosynthesis

Carbon is essential for the process of life. Carbon is always cycling around the earth, what moves carbon makes up the carbon cycle. Plants and animals both require carbon. Plants get it from taking carbon dioxide from the air. They use this and the sunlight's energy to make food. Animals get it by eating the plants or eating other animals that have eaten those plants. During cell respiration oxygen and food both provide energy. Respiration makes carbon dioxide which is then put out into the atmosphere. But there is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and there needs to be a solution to reduce it.

Photosynthesis is the biological conversion of light energy into chemical energy. It occurs in green plants and photosynthetic bacteria through a series of many biochemical reactions(Ensminger,2014). The equation for photosynthesis is 6CO2+6H2O+light energy → C6H1206+6O2. Cellular Respiration is the process by which organisms combine oxygen with food stuff molecules, diverting the chemical energy in these substances into life sustaining processes and discarding, as waste products, carbon dioxide and water (Cell Respiration,2017). The equation for cellular respiration is C6H1206+6O2 → 6H2O+ 36 ATP. The three main steps of this process is Glycolysis which creates 2 ATP, takes place in

North American sources release nearly 2 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year, mostly as carbon dioxide. By clearing forests and burning fossil fuels human beings have considerably changed the global carbon cycle. The result of this has been a buildup of carbon dioxide. “In effect, we have been getting a huge subsidy from these unmanaged parts of the carbon cycle” (Health & Medicine Week, 2007). Overall this has hidden from the atmosphere approximately 200 billion tons of carbon. Carbon levels may be reaching their limit as climate conditions change and forests grow, some may actually go up in