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Name the process by which plants make food.

Plants have autotrophic mode nutrition that is they make their own food by the process known as photosynthesis. To carry out this process they require carbon dioxide, water, sunlight and chlorophyll. Steps involved in photosynthesis are:

i. Absorption of light by chlorophyll


ii. Conversion of light into chemical energy


iii. Reducing carbon dioxide into carbohydrates.


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