Yes, chlorophyll does "harvest light," but it doesn't make glucose; the Calvin Cycle does that.
Energy/ their food
The chemical found in plants that traps light to make food is called chlorophll, plants make their food ina procces called photosynthisis.
plants enables to make food because they have a chlorophyll. chlorophyll is a green pigment that can usually found on green plants.it traps light energy from the sun,they convert light energy into chemical energy. this process is what we called photosynthesis.photo which means light and synthesis means combining together.
Chlorophyll is responsible for capturing light energy from the sun during photosynthesis in plants. It helps convert this energy into chemical energy that can be used by the plant to produce glucose and oxygen.
Light and chlorophyll are essential for photosynthesis because light provides the energy needed for the process to occur, and chlorophyll is a pigment that absorbs light and converts it into chemical energy that plants can use to make food. Without light and chlorophyll, photosynthesis cannot take place, and plants would not be able to produce the energy they need to survive.
It traps in light which the plant then converts to energy for it to consume
they need light (because of the chlorophyll content, and chlorophyll needs light)
They contain mitochondria which stores light energy as food, also through the use of chlorophyll (a green pigment).
The pigment chlorophyll in chloroplasts captures light energy to drive photosynthesis, the process by which plants make food. Chlorophyll is controlled by the plant's genetic machinery to optimize its absorption of light in the visible spectrum for efficient food production. Additionally, various environmental factors such as light intensity, temperature, and nutrient availability can influence chlorophyll production and function in plants.
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Photosynthesis is the process of converting light energy to chemical energy and storing it in the bonds of sugar. The Calvin cycle is the set of chemical reactions that take place in chloroplasts during photosynthesis. The cycle is light-independent because it takes place after the energy has been captured from sunlight.
No, chlorophyll does not trap glucose from sunlight. Chlorophyll is a pigment found in chloroplasts that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis. During photosynthesis, chlorophyll captures light energy and converts it into chemical energy in the form of glucose, not by trapping existing glucose from sunlight.