Comparing Photosynthesis And Cellular Respiration

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Since photosynthesis and cellular respiration are chemically opposite, these two processes often cycle energy. To start off with, plants take in carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight. Through the process of photosynthesis that occurs in the chloroplasts, the plant creates glucose. While this may help the plant, its waste product from the reaction, oxygen, benefits humans in the process of cellular respiration! Once we breath in oxygen, cellular respiration starts. Oxygen and glucose then go to the mitochondrion, where different processes (glycolysis, The Krebs Cycle, the electron transport chain) take over to produce energy the body can use. We then breath out, exhaling the waste products from the reaction, which are water and carbon dioxide.