Relationship Between Cellular Respiration And Photosynthesis

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Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are related because the products of photosynthesis are the reactants in cellular respiration. The chemical equation for cellular respiration is glucose + oxygen  carbon dioxide + water + energy while the chemical equation for photosynthesis is carbon dioxide + water  glucose + oxygen. The processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration are a cycle in a plant. In the Plants and Snails Post Lab when a test tube had both a plant and a snail inside of it with the lights on the oxygen and carbon dioxide were very close to the control group’s equal amount of both gases. This proves that these processes are related because a plant uses both of them to

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