In the carbon cycle, what process can be thought of as the reverse of photosynthesis?

Answer 1

Respiration and Decomposition.

Through the process of photosynthesis, green plants absorb solar energy and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to produce carbohydrates (sugars). Plants and animals effectively “burn” these carbohydrates (and other products derived from them) through the process of respiration, the reverse of photosynthesis. Respiration releases the energy contained in sugars for use in metabolism and renders the carbohydrate“fuel” back to carbon dioxide. Together, respiration and decomposition (respiration that consumes organic matter mostly by bacteria and fungi) return the biologically fixed carbon back to the atmosphere. The amount of carbon taken up by photosynthesis and released back to the atmosphere by respiration each year is 1,000 times greater than the amount of carbon that moves through the geological cycle on an annual basis.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Well, photorespiration occurs in plants and takes up atmospheric oxygen from the atmosphere and releases CO2. As you probably know, this is the opposite of photosynthesis, whereby plants take up CO2 and release O2. In most plants, these two are competing pathways.

Answer 4

Well photosynthesis is generalized into this equation:

6CO2(carbon dioxide gas) + 6H2O(water) ---> C6-H12-O6(glucose) + 6O2(oxygen gas)

So the reverse of this equation is:

C6-H12-O6 + 6O2 ---> 6CO2 + 6H2O + (heat)

which is what happens in cellular respiration in animal cells.

It's more complex than that, but this sums it up.

Answer 5

I would say animal respiration. Photsynthesis changes carbon, ultimately to oxygen, and in respiration, that oxygen is transformed back to carbon dioxide

Answer 6

Mitochondrial respiration.

Answer 7

cellular respiration. the two reactions feed into each other. ones biproducts are a necessary component to the other

Answer 8

Beats me... Look it up.

Answer 9

acidosis