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photosynthesis

[foh-tuh-sin-thuh-sis] / ˌfoʊ təˈsɪn θə sɪs /
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making food from sun
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Clusia major, meanwhile, uses a hybrid strategy combining C3 photosynthesis and CAM.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

The genus Clusia is particularly valuable for studying the evolution of photosynthesis because it contains the only known trees that use CAM.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

That diversity gives scientists a rare opportunity to examine how plants can transition between different forms of photosynthesis.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Organometallic compounds also play important roles in living systems, including in blood and photosynthesis.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

All of our food, in fact almost all life on earth, can be traced back to photosynthesis in plants.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

He suspects that these minerals may have been deposited while the earth's atmosphere was in a transition state, just beginning to accumulate the oxygen that was being released by the photosyntheses of slow-living, primitive plants.

From Time Magazine Archive



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