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Why does a plant produce sugar?

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The plant produces sugar during the Calvin Cycle of photosynthesis.

This is part of the "dark reactions" in the stroma, which reduce CO2 to C6H12O6, or glucose (simple carbohydrate).

The Calvin Cycle is also known as the "Sugar Factory" of the plant.

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plants take carbon dioxide and water from evrionment and by help of sunlight make glucose and oxygen. the process called photosynthesis. clorophyll is a coumpound present in plants which help it in traping sunlight and thus help in photosynthesis.

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havee no clueee! haha. im looking for the answer too.

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All of them. Each cell has several chloroplasts that produce the food for the plant.

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