Most of the living world runs on the energy provided by the sun. The transfer from solar to chemical energy happens through photosynthesis, which occurs in the organelle called chloroplast.

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Every living organism needs energy to survive and they extract that energy from the food they consume. Based on how they obtain energy, living organisms are classified into two groups ...

Starch or amylum is a carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined together by glycosidic bonds. This polysaccharide is produced by all green plants as ...

Cannabis (Cán-na-bis) is a genus of flowering plants that includes three putative species, Cannabis sativa L.,Cannabis indica Lam., and Cannabis ruderalis Janisch. These three taxa are indigenous to ...