photosynthesis
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Eventually plants trapped so much carbon dioxide, which is necessary for photosynthesis, that CO2 levels in the atmosphere plummeted by 90%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
For the next 50 million years they had no leaves and conducted photosynthesis in their bare stems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Plants’ “signature trick,” the foundation of life on earth, is photosynthesis, which converts light energy into chemical energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
These plants lack chlorophyll and do not carry out photosynthesis.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
I’d be working in the fields all day, right in the midst of so much photosynthesis, yet without any idea of what photosynthesis was.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
He suspects that these minerals may have been deposited while the earth's atmosphere was in a transition state, just beginning to accumulate the oxygen that was being released by the photosyntheses of slow-living, primitive plants.
From Time Magazine Archive
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