Without plants, we don't exist
When plants climbed out of the ocean
some 500 million years ago
they arrived in a terrestrial barren
enveloped in an inhospitable - fog of Co2 and H2
Inhospitable that is - everything but plants
they had already learned to unlock Oxygen
from Co2 dissolved in the Ocean
They adapted the technology to their new world
In a way, they brought up the ocean with them
by incessantly breathing out,
those legions of early land plants tipped
the balance of gases towards oxygenation
They created the atmosphere we now enjoy
It is not a stretch to say they birthed the habitable world!
Chlorophyll is the crowning molecular miracle of the Nature : in that the plants mastered to convert light and air into Sugar! The function of the reaction center of chlorophyll is to absorb light energy and transfer it to other parts of the photosystem. The absorbed energy of the photon is transferred to an electron in a process called charge separation. The removal of the electron from the chlorophyll is an oxidation reaction.
The process of photosynthesis is commonly written as:
6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2.
This means that the reactants, six carbon dioxide molecules and six water molecules, are converted by light energy captured by chlorophyll (implied by the arrow) into a sugar molecule and six oxygen molecules, the products.
Without plants, we don't exist as they produce the starch and the Oxygenated atmosphere!
So essentially plants eat Light and Carbon-di-oxide in Air and produce Food and Air
Let's show more gratitude towards the plants!
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