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The raw materials of photosynthesis, water and carbon dioxide, enter the cells of the leaf, and the products of photosynthesis, sugar and oxygen, leave the leaf. Water enters the root and is transported up to the leaves through specialized plant cells known as xylem vessels.
During photosynthesis (photo = light, synthesis = to make), energy from sunlight is captured with special light-absorbing chemicals (called pigments) and this captured energy is used to make living tissue from the carbon molecules in carbon dioxide gas. Oxygen is released almost as a waste product.