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Cells of an organism perform the following chemical reaction: 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + → C6H12O6 + 6 O2 To which organism do these cells most likely belong? A. a rubber tree plant B. an earthworm C. a whale D. a rabbit

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A. a rubber tree plant.

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In this case, since plants perform a process called "photosynthesis", by which the carbon dioxide and water are taken into the vegetable cell and get transformed into sugar (glucose) and oxygen; the organism the perform the given reaction is A. a rubber tree plant as such reaction shows the aforementioned process. It is important to mention that the rest of them perform cellular respiration, which is the contrary one:

C6H12O6 + 6 O2 → 6 CO2 + 6 H2O

In order to get energy.

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