How aquatic plants breathe

in #nature7 years ago (edited)


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Breathing is a vital process of all living organisms through which the bodies get the oxygen gas in exchange for the release of carbon dioxide and breathing is the most important process to ensure the continuity of life of the organism.

And the organisms on Earth are different and multiple, some of them have devices dedicated to breathing, such as humans and those who do not have those devices, such as plants, including the single-cell organisms that deal with oxygen through one cell and the living organisms of different breathing methods depending on the environment in which he lives Like a frog that breathes through the nostrils in its small size and becomes breathing through the lungs at puberty, it breathes across the skin if it enters a waterway

Plant respiration is a little bit different from the rest of the organisms. Plants process photosynthesis during the day, taking carbon dioxide from the air and using it for the purposes of the food meter (sugar) and releasing oxygen gas into the atmosphere. The process of photosynthesis coincides with the breathing of plants where plants take oxygen from the atmosphere and convert it to carbon dioxide, but the process of photosynthesis is faster than the process of breathing in plants.

Plants vary in their growth location to plants that grow on land and aquatic plants. Aquatic plants are a type of plant whose growth needs to be close to or within the aquatic environment. Its roots are flooded only with water, and its roots are immersed in water. The water depth plays an important role in aquatic plants. It is associated with the amount of light that can reach the plant. The characteristics of aquatic plants are flat leaves, short and short stems, and the leaves tend to lose color.

The question now is how do underwater plants take full breaths in water?
Aquatic plants follow the breathing method of spreading to obtain oxygen. The gas is transported from the most concentrated to the least concentration. It helps in the breathing process. The majority of the water surface of the plant shows that the cells can exchange gases and obtain dissolved oxygen in the water. On the leaves, but the stems and roots in this exchange to obtain oxygen in the water you live in.

In order to understand the principle of breathing in aquatic plants, algae can be used as plants that grow in water media and are characterized by their very simple thickness and growth to heights of up to 100 m. In algae, the surface area of the moss leaf is large and all are exposed to water from all sides. Ensuring greater contact with water and greater exchange of gases.

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this is a good article.
it is very important to keep this in mind when keeping plants in your home aquarium.
at night when photosynthesis is not occurring plants are using vital oxygen in your water and can cause your fish to die if they use all of the oxygen up.
i had this problem once with mangroves when i was a novice.

thank you for your informative post. i hope others will learn something from this.

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