Building bigger carbon-based molecules from sugar

The carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms in the sugar molecules plants build during photosynthesis don't just get used for energy: cells also rearrange and combine them with other elements, like nitrogen, to build other large carbon-based molecules the body needs, including amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

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