Sentences with phrase «humans through photosynthesis»
Solar energy powers the biosphere, and is available to humans through photosynthesis.
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That's a key question because through photosynthesis, land plants currently take up about a quarter of the CO2 humans add to the atmosphere each year, sequestering it as wood and as soil carbon.
They focused on sugars, which are produced in the leaves by photosynthesis and transported through tubes 20 times narrower than a human hair to roots and new shoots.
As plants take in carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, they release water through evapotranspiration from their leaf pores, which helps them cool down in the hot sun, much as human sweat cools us down.
Human civilization has depended on our ability to «gather» solar energy through photosynthesis for millennia — this is called «agriculture» — and today's solar thermal and photovoltaic technologies make it VERY easy to gather solar energy for electricity, water and space heating, etc..