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called stomata. Water evaporates from the leaves via the stomata and that is what is called
transpiration. Transpiration is important because it maintains a supply of water to the cells –
essential for the cell processes to continue. A tree takes up a lot more water than it actually needs
and the excess is used to carry the dissolved minerals from the roots to the leaves. The watery
solution created is called the sap. The tree extracts the minerals from the sap and all that is left is
the water which is removed by transpiration.
The most important chemical reaction on earth is photosynthesis. It is the initial energy source for
all food chains on the planet. Trees make their own food through photosynthesis. Leaves absorb
carbon and oxygen through the stomata in the form of carbon dioxide. Inside the chloroplast in the
cells, the chlorophyll molecules (the plant’s green pigment, its life blood) use energy from the sun to
make the hydrogen from the water combined with the carbon and oxygen and from the soluble
carbohydrate – sugars. The sugars can then be made into starch for storage. Carbon atoms are the
food of all organisms. Photosynthesis is the only way in nature of trapping the carbon
molecules in the air and making them into food, which is then transferred through food chains
into other organisms. This is very important to note because if you kill off all the trees and plants,
you kill off man’s food supply.
Trees, like all organisms, need energy to grow. This energy is released from the food made by
photosynthesis in a process of respiration. This process occurs in the mitochondria of the tree’s
cells 24 hours a day. Some of the food is combined with oxygen and the reaction releases stored
energy for growth. Respiration uses oxygen and releases energy, carbon dioxide and water. This is
the reverse of the photosynthesis which collects the sun’s energy, combines it with carbon dioxide
and water and releases oxygen.
This is important for us here because the human body essentially goes through the same process as
mentioned in previous sections. It is the respiration (anx) process that releases the energy stored in
food in both humans and plants. Plants make their own food through photosynthesis and humans
get food from plants (or animals that eat plants). Just eating the food is not enough as you need
something to kick the stored energy in the food out so the energy can be transported to areas that