Plant nutrition

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What this unit covers

• Photosynthesis: Explain photosynthesis as the method by which plants create carbohydrates from basic materials using light energy.
• Photosynthesis: Provide the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide plus water produces glucose and oxygen, facilitated by light and chlorophyll.
• Leaf structure: Recognize and label the following components in diagrams and images of a dicot leaf: chloroplasts, cuticle, guard cells, stomata, upper and lower epidermis, palisade mesophyll, spongy mesophyll, air spaces, vascular bundles, xylem, and phloem.