Shareholder's equity includes contributions and distributions. Shareholder's equity is the amount owners and investors paid for the corporationâs stock when it was issued plus any net profits since the company was founded less any net losses or dividend distributions since founding. The net profits or losses that are kept and not distributed are the retained earnings.
Photosynthesis, process by which green plants and certain other organisms use the energy of light to convert carbon dioxide and water into the simple sugar glucose. In so doing, photosynthesis provides the basic energy source for virtually all organisms. An extremely important byproduct of photosynthesis is oxygen, on which most organisms depend. Photosynthesis occurs in green plants, seaweeds, algae, and certain bacteria. These organisms are veritable sugar factories, producing millions of new glucose molecules per second. Plants use much of this glucose, a carbohydrate, as an energy source to build leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds.
After carbon dioxide enters the leaf through stomata it moves into the mesophyll cells where photosynthesis occurs and glucose is constructed. Respiration. Photosynthesis is the process by which plants use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars.The sugars produced by photosynthesis can be stored, transported throughout the tree, and converted into energy which is used to power all cellular processes.espiration occurs when glucose (sugar produced during photosynthesis) combines with oxygen to produce useable cellular energy. This energy is used to fuel growth and all of the normal cellular functions. Carbon dioxide and water are formed as by-products of respiration (Figure 4).