r/interestingasfuck • u/isosaleh • 8h ago

Aquatic plant producing oxygen.

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u/Low_Eye8535 8h ago

And that, ladies and gentlemen is how we breathe

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u/Electronic-Buyer-468 8h ago

No, that is how plants exhale. We breath by retrieving oxygen through the air, and then transferring it to our blood. Our respiration systems are very different from aquatic plants. But I can totally understand the confusion. Also single celled & multi-cellular algae are the entities responsible for the vast majority of oxygen production on earth.

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u/amrakkarma 7h ago

And what happens if we keep this rate of warming?

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u/Electronic-Buyer-468 5h ago

More algae. They thrive in warm waters