input question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - Preheat the oven to desired baking temperature - Grease your preferred cake pan with crisco or butter or other non-stick spray - Add eggs and vegetable oil to the dry ingredients - Stir or whisk until all the dry flour has been absorbed - Pour the batter into the greased cake pan - Place cake pan into the oven for the required time - When a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean, the cake is done baking -???
output answer: To bake a cake you first need to gather your ingredients

What is the missing first step of the following process: - You water the seeds - You wait for the seeds to sprout - You keep the area free of pests and weeds while the plants grow - You thin out the plants as they get bigger to give them space to grow - You remove the vegetables from the plants when they are ripe.
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Answer: You plant vegetable seeds in the ground

Q: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The isotope is unstable - The isotope emits radiation - The isotope decays - The isotope loses some atomic particles - The isotope turns into a different element - The isotope is finished decaying and emitting radiation.
A: An isotope has too many protons

Question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - Sediment builds up over the remains - The remains decompose, leaving only trace amounts - The remaining parts over the years are replaced with mineral - A fossil is formed -
Answer: Animals and plants die in soft soil or mud

[Q]: What is the missing first step of the following process: - They are buried under layers of soil - Pressure builds over time - The remains liquefy - The carbon atoms rearrange to become a new substance.
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[A]: Plants and animals long ago died

Problem: Given the question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The roots absorb water and minerals from the soil - This combination of water and minerals flows from the stem into the leaf - Carbon dioxide enters the leaf - Light, water and minerals, and the carbon dioxide all mix together - This mixture forms sugar (glucose) which is what the plant eats - Oxygen goes out of the leaf through the stomata -
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The answer is:
Chloroplasts in the leaf of the plant traps light from the sun