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The pursuit of health and beauty? Now you’ve got my attention!
(Wow, Professor Kurosaka is really good at motivating Kumi...)
Let’s look at this figure again.
photosynthesis light Respiration
eating
Carbon from the starch Carbon used as fuel and
of potatoes raw material for the body
Look at j on the left. This is the flow of carbon in which plants pull carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere during photosynthesis and use it as a raw
material for creating saccharides.
Now look at k on the right. This is the flow of carbon in which those
saccharides are used by a living creature, and through this process, they
become carbon dioxide once more and are returned to the atmosphere
via respiration.
Let’s talk more about these two flows. Now that we’re finished with lunch,
we can really sink our teeth into the subject!
Super cool!
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