What does Glucose do in leaves?
Glucose is a sugar. Any time you see the -ose on the end of the name of a molecule you know it is a sugar. The glucose is made in the leaf by photosynthesis. The plants takes water + carbon dioxide + energy from sunlight to help rearrange the atoms into glucose and oxygen. Plants take in the carbon dioxide just to make their sugar and the oxygen is the waste left over from the reaction. http://www.biology4kids.com/files/plants… http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/WAKI-… The plant can link the glucoses together in long chains to make cellulose for structure. Wood is mostly made of cellulose. Or the plant can chain the glucose together in another way to make starch for storing. Starch is the plants stored food (or
