captures sunlight energy. This energy is used to transform water and carbon dioxide into oxygen
and glucose. It is completed within producers, or organisms that make their own food. That is
because photosynthesis requires the use of chlorophyll, the green pigment contained within the
chloroplast of a plant cell.
respiration uses the products of photosynthesis in order to make carbon dioxide,
water, and energy (in the form of ATP). Cellular respiration is completed in any eukaryotic
(cells that have a nucleus and organelles) cell- both plant and animal. Cellular respiration
occurs in the mitochondria of a eukaryotic cell.
By examining the
hyperlinked photos of the formulas for cellular respiration and photosynthesis, you will
discover that the two formulas are simply inverses of one another. For this reason, consumers
(organisms that cannot make their own food and must eat other things) and producers are
dependent on one another.
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