Question - From Reynbow

Lol I wrote the comment before the page had updated. It was an educated guess - that's all I#m going to say. But what I've heard the truth sounds pretty reasonable.

 

Air? Thats a load of shizer. Air (Carbon Dioxide in this case) is only one of the nutrients a plant needs for growth. Everything on Earth is made of the elements in the periodic table so there! lol

 

Would saying "it came from thin air" encapsulate the meaning of "air?"

 

What do you mean by air? Like plain old air, or something in it.

 

I would have said cells...
They are already in the seed, and multiply forming a greater, larger being.

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It's relative to the subject of plants...

 

In Soviet Russia, tree grows you.


And wouldn't it be cells that grow or sprout with maturity?

 

Light!
light from the sun creates energy which makes it grow

 

It's spelled scheisse.

 

But when the trees die everything that made them up goes back into the ground for the next tree.

Looking at the opposite of what you said, if we cut all of the trees down, the earth would expand. And we would all die.

I am sure plants use light to trigger the chemical reaction to turn the nutrients in the ground, and the carbon dioxide in the air into starch which is used to make it grow.

 

I'd have to agree with Sweeny and Mallet on that one. All of those things; oxygen, sunlight, water etc., are used by the cells to multiply/grow and used however the cells need them.

 

Plants also take in Carbon Dioxide during photosynthesis.

 

i think we established that already. Reyn hasn't spoken in a while, i wonder what he makes of our new found discoveries...

 

Did you know plants need water and sunlight to survive?

 

I heard they are green too.

 

I was trying to think of something witty to say to that but you take the prize man lol

 

You still could have thought of something witty to say rather than praising a higher member.

 

Well, I was gunna say that line from Red vs Blue:
Why don't you put that in a memo and entitle it '**** I already know'!

 

Apparently none of you guys have even a basic knowledge of chemistry... Plants preform photosynthesis, which converts carbon dioxide and water, via sunlight, into organic sugars that feed the plant cells and allow them to grow. Organic compounds are almost exclusively made up of carbon (carbon-based life ring any bells?), oxygen, and hydrogen atoms. The carbon and some of the oxygen comes from the air, and the hydrogen and the rest of the oxygen come from water. Sunlight does not actually contribute any mass to the plant, it just provides the energy that powers the photosynthesis reactions in the plant's leaves. The rest of the trace minerals required for life (which amount to a very low percentage of the plant's actual mass) are leached from the soil.