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What Is the Point of Plants?

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Photosynthesis

People assume that the you break carbon dioxide up and then take the oxygen from it ndn release it. But, but the oxygen is taken from waterad the carbon dioxide is used later down stream. The way energy moves through the chlorofill molecules doesn't bounce around randomly, but it follows multiple paths simultaneously. And yet, that proctat step in photosynthesis remarkably efficient. It's nearly a hundred %.

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