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]]>The conditions that make living in the Arctic so harsh also prevent the trees from surviving there. And even though trees produce oxygen through a process known as photosynthesis, they are not its main producers. 50 to 80% of oxygen actually comes from phytoplankton, microscopic single-celled organisms.
That explains why we can breathe normally on the open sea, in the Arctic, and other regions without a single tree to be seen.
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]]>The post If Trees Give Us Oxygen, How Can We Breathe Where There Are No Trees? appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>The conditions that make living in the Arctic so harsh also prevent the trees from surviving there. And even though trees produce oxygen through a process known as photosynthesis, they are not its main producers. 50 to 80% of oxygen actually comes from phytoplankton, microscopic single-celled organisms.
That explains why we can breathe normally on the open sea, in the Arctic, and other regions without a single tree to be seen.
The post If Trees Give Us Oxygen, How Can We Breathe Where There Are No Trees? appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
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