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No, glucose is a substance, osmosis is a process.

Glucose is a simple sugar and is made by photosynthesis in plant cells. Osmosis is the flow of water through a semi-permeable membrane from a region where there is a higher concentration of water to where there is a lower concentration of water.

Osmosis happens in plant cells because the cell membrane is semi-permeable. The direction of water flow depends on how much glucose is dissolved in the cell sap compared to how much is in the liquid surrounding the cells.

Thus glucose is involved in the process of photosynthesis.

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