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Autotrophs, such as plants, use light to make their own food. What happens to the light absorbed by a plant during photosynthesis?

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When light energy reaches the pigment molecules, it energizes the electrons within them, and these electrons are shunted to an electron transport chain in the thylakoid membrane.

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