"Photosynthetic life" refers to living organisms, such as plants and certain types of bacteria, that are able to convert sunlight into energy through a process called photosynthesis. They use this energy to produce their own food and oxygen.
Sentences with «photosynthetic life»
But those things are present in small amounts on Mars, and nobody is proposing that there's photosynthetic life on Mars. (discovermagazine.com)
In Earth's youth, photosynthetic life forms thrived for a billion years without producing so much as a whiff of oxygen. (newscientist.com)
But the signals are also detectable only if the atmosphere is well oxygenated, and the only way scientists know how to make an oxygenated atmosphere is with photosynthetic life. (sciencemag.org)