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PHOTOSYNTHESIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synthesis of compounds with the aid of radiant energy (especially in plants)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("photosynthesis" is a kind of...):
chemical action; chemical change; chemical process ((chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved)
Meronyms (parts of "photosynthesis"):
light reaction (the first stage of photosynthesis during which energy from light is used for the production of ATP)
Domain category:
flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Derivation:
photosynthetic (relating to or using or formed by photosynthesis)
Context examples:
In some cases, the deaths are a result of carbon starvation, in which trees close their pores, essentially starving themselves by blocking the entry of carbon, which is needed for photosynthesis.
(What's killing trees during droughts?, National Science Foundation)
Stamenković et al's research provides a way for oxygen to get into the brines without algae or photosynthesis.
(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)
According to the model, as the southern Arctic grows warmer, increased photosynthesis will balance increased permafrost emissions until the late 2100s.
(Far Northern Permafrost May Unleash Carbon Within Decades, NASA)
For instance, clock proteins activate the production of other proteins that are responsible for photosynthesis in leaves just before dawn.
(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)
Fertilizing is a delivery system for nitrogen, which plants use to create chlorophyll for photosynthesis, but less than 40 percent of the nitrogen in commercial fertilizer makes it to the plant.
(Bacteria Used to Create Fertilizer Out of Thin Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
At first, the researchers tried to use spinach and kale cells, but the chloroplasts, the structures where photosynthesis occurs, were not stable enough to live outside the plant.
(Oxygen-Producing Bacteria Could Help Heart Attack Sufferers, VOA News)
The polyp, a cnidarian as are jellyfish, provides stinging protection and secretes a calcium shell, and the algae performs photosynthesis, produces oxygen and gives the coral its color.
(Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, Wikinews)
In patchy doses in the open ocean, Sargassum contributes to ocean health by providing habitat for turtles, crabs, fish, and birds and, like other plants, producing oxygen via photosynthesis.
(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)
Decreased cloudiness allowed more solar radiation to reach the plants, which typically promotes photosynthesis, but in this case it likely posed an extra stress on the plants from the resulting depletion of soil moisture.
(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)
The device senior author Professor Erwin Reisner from Cambridge’s Department of Chemistry and his colleagues produced is inspired by photosynthesis – the natural process by which plants use the energy from sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into food.
(‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas, University of Cambridge)
