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An organism that can produce its own energy using sunlight is called an autotroph.
Autotrophs can produce food by using sunlight, carbon dioxide and other chemicals. The most common example of an autotroph is a plant, which produces its own food through the process of photosynthesis.
The formula of photosynthesis can be written as: 6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2
The given formula means that t, six carbon dioxide molecules and six water molecules, are converted by the light energy captured by chlorophyll, which is the Sunlight, into a sugar molecule and six oxygen molecules, the products.