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Photosynthesis.

Every living thing, needs sugar to stay alive. A human body, does not produce its own, so it has to be eaten. A plant, however, does makes its own sugar, called Glucose.

By shining UV light on a plant, a reaction occurs in the leaves, by cacti in the stem. Making Glucose out of sunlight. the process is called photosynthesis.

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