(Solved): The second law of thermodynamics states that all energy transformations result in an increase in en ...

The second law of thermodynamics states that all energy transformations result in an increase in entropy (disorder). If so, how does photosynthesis, which is an energy transformation, create order rather than disorder? Plants do not obey the second law of thermodynamics. Plants take highly ordered molecules like glucose and break them into smaller disordered molecules like carbon dioxide and water. Plants do not have mitochondria like animals and therefore cannot create disorder. The tree takes in small disordered molecules like carbon dioxide from the air and water from the earth and using solar energy produce highly ordered sugar molecules like glucose. Photosynthesis does not actually ereate order. Where within the cell is the majority of ATP produced? mitochondria cytoplasm nucleus endoplasmic reticulum Golgi body