8 sentences with 'photosynthesis'
Example sentences and phrases with the word photosynthesis and other words derived from it.
• « But photosynthesis released oxygen, a corrosive and poisonous gas hitherto absent from the earth's atmosphere, a new pollutant that literally burned prokaryotes alive. »
• « When it comes to energy conversion, he says, it took about 2.5 billion years from the birth of the Earth to photosynthesis, which transforms the sun's electromagnetic energy into the chemical energy of sugars in plants. From there to the fire of our ancestors, who learned to transform plant tissues into heat, it took another 2 billion years. »
• « The systematisation of photosynthesis in the service of man, i.e. agriculture, is a very new technology: it emerged only 10,000 years ago, with civilisation. »
• « In the sea, plants such as algae can be found at depths of up to 200 metres, because that is where the sun's rays, which are essential for photosynthesis, reach. »
• « We know that the waste product of photosynthesis is oxygen, which is essential for the respiration of all living things. »
• « During the day, thanks to the photosynthesis of plants, they return more oxygen to the air than they consume to breathe; on the other hand, at night they only breathe as we do, consuming oxygen. »