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Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Darla who lived on a wide countryside.
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• There were wildflowers growing stretched across the fields that made the field look a long flat rainbow. One sunny day, she went outside to pick some flowers.
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• As she skipped through the fields looking for the perfect flower, she came across a daisy standing taller than the rest. She bent down to pick it when all of a sudden she heard a small voice shout “WAIT!”
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• She looked down to see the flower was talking to her, and Darla said “What’s wrong?”
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• “I’m busy right now can you wait until I’m done with my job?” said the flower.
• “What job could a flower have? You’re just a plant!”• “I’m going through photosynthesis right now.”• “What’s that?” said the girl.
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• “Photosynthesis is a process that uses sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce glucose, which is a sugar, and oxygen.”
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• “Why do you do that? What’s the point?”
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• “Photosynthesis is a process that is vital for all air breathing life on Earth! We produce the air you breathe, little girl.”
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“Oh I see… are plants the only things that go through photosynthesis?”
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• “No, algae and some kinds of bacteria do it as well. However, green plants are the only plants to produce oxygen and make fuel for themselves.’”
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• “How does it all work Mr. Flower?”
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• “Well young one, there are two steps in photosynthesis; the first is called the light reaction. In this step, water and minerals that were absorbed into the roots of a plant create chlorophyll, which captures the light energy from the sun and uses it to make high-energy molecules.”
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•“What’s the second step after it takes in the sunlight?”
•“From there, the second step called the Calvin Benson Cycle uses the high energy molecules to capture carbon dioxide.”
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• “When is the oxygen that we breathe made?”
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• “Well once the energy from the sun and the carbon dioxide work together in a place in the stoma to create glucose, they have oxygen left over that is released through the leaves into the atmosphere.”
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• “Jeez thanks Mr. Flower! I didn’t know how much work you did that created air for me to breathe!”
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• “It’s just part of what I do Darla, you can pick me now if you would like.”
• “No that’s alright; I’ll let you do some more photothyzing… or whatever it’s called! Thank you Mr. Flower!”
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• Once she left Mr. Flower’s patch of daisies, she ran home and told her mother all about her adventure and what she had learned.
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• Darla had learned about a very important process that day, and she says thank you to all of the plants every day!