Dear Shirley:

I enjoy nature too. And it is so good to take breaks from interacting with people, isn’t it?

As far as your photosynthesis description in the first post, regarding the beginning: “Photosynthesis is a process by plants to convert sunlight into chemical energy that can be stored as carbohydrate molecules such as sugars to produce CO2 and water.”

I think “…stored as carbohydrate molecules such as sugars” should be the end of the sentence. “to produce CO2 and water” is not relevant to photosynthesis, these are the products of respiration, not photosynthesis.

And then: ” The chemical equation of photosynthesis is an endergonic reaction since it absorbs the energy of sunlight to start the reaction” is not a complete thought because every reaction absorbs energy to start the reaction but photosynthesis is endergonic because the energy of the products is bigger than that of the reactants, so in total the reaction stores energy.

You added much more in the second post. Don’t forget to separate the essay into paragraphs.

Oh, the Calvin Cycle.. I remember now.

By the way, I think photosynthesis happens in all the green parts of the plant, not just the leaves…?

Keep combining science and spirituality. As you know, I often take scientific principles and apply them to human behavior. I believe the two, science and true spirituality, that is what is real and yet not clearly evident, are not separate. That is, I think science doesn’t end someplace and spirituality starts.

anita