Sentences with phrase «photosynthetic plants»

Reasoning that, because it fluctuated daily, water vapour was continually recycling itself in and out of the atmosphere, he turned his attention to carbon dioxide, a gas resident for a long time in the atmosphere whose concentration was only (at that time) dramatically changed by major sources such as volcanoes or major drawdowns such as unusual and massive episodes of mineral weathering or the evolution of photosynthetic plants: events that occur on very long, geological timescales.

In the end it might be easier to just stop pumping CO2 into the air in the first place and let photosynthetic plants handle the rest.

Plastids have their own genome and are responsible for harvesting energy from light in photosynthetic plants and algae.

The tiny fraction of it that is absorbed by photosynthetic plants maintains all living matter

leakage of natural gas (itself a result of past life) and photosynthetic plants [see «Methane, Plants and Climate Change,» by Frank Keppler and Thomas Röckmann; Scientific American, February 2007].

Before there were magical nanomachines and photosynthetic plant men, there were deadly poisonous Zanzibar hamsters.

But human greenhouse gas pollution looks set to continue to rise — and photosynthetic plants on land or at sea can only do so much.

Photosynthetic plants on other planets that revolve around different kinds of suns could be mostly gray or black.

If comparatively more bluish or reddish light reaches a planet's surface than on Earth, photosynthetic plant - type life may may not be greenish in color, because such life will have evolved to different pigments in order to optimize their use of available and so color the appearance of the planet's land surfaces accordingly.