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What Is the Point of Plants?

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Is It Possible That Plants Will Detoxify Reactive Oxygen?

There are sea slugs that have, i wish i'd been sent to help yoos. If you starve the slugs, they will photo synthesise using those oplas. But one species dies after ten days, and one dies after 30 days. And it's not because the chloroplasts are doing anything differently. It's because the slugs can't cope with the reactive oxygen species that are being produced by the chloroplas as they try to photo synthesize. So basically what plants have done is evolved very intricate mechanisms of detoxifying those highly energetic oxygen species. To be honest, i remember watching that film with thinking, i'm not sure they did employ a science adviser

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