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The world of living things is conveniently and conventionally divided into two great groups, the animals and the plants. Broadly speaking the important feature which distinguishes plants is that they can manufacture most of the substances they require by trapping and using various forms of outside energy, in particular the energy of sunlight. In the process of photosynthesis they utilize the energy of light to build up complex chemical substances from relatively simple ones.
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© 1971 D. F. Horrobin
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Horrobin, D.F. (1971). The cell and its requirements. In: Essential Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6118-3_2
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