It takes only 8 minutes for this radiation to travel 93 million miles to reach us. The green color of the leaves is due to the presence of a pigment called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll absorbs blue and red light efficiently, but not green, the transmitted green light gives the leaves their green color. In addition, past photosynthesis provides the fossil fuels needed to power the industry and automobiles etc. Photosynthesis is the basis of this food web that links almost all living beings on Earth.
Plants capture only one thousandth of the sunlight that falls on the Earth.
Yet, without this process all life on Earth would come to a halt. Respiration by both plants and animals, in turn, releases carbon dioxide that plants use to perform photosynthesis. Photosynthesis occurs in tiny organelle called chloroplast . The outside space is called the stroma matrix.