What are the chemical equations that describe biological transformation of water by plants and animals?

What will be an ideal response?


Animals generate water and carbon dioxide as products from energy production, or metabolisms:

Glucose + oxygen ? carbon dioxide + water (3.6)



Plants consume water through the photosynthesis reaction:



Carbon dioxide + water + photons ? plant tissue + oxygen (3.7)



An example would be photosynthesis that has a general equation of:

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