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Creation Day 3: God creates the "chemical" breath of life God created plants on Creation Day 3 to be the " producers " of all the future ' food and oxygen' requirements needed for both animals and humans to survive on planet earth. Plants don’t have to eat, because they can make their own food from sunlight . Plants use energy from sunlight to convert the carbon dioxide from the air and water (absorbed through their roots) into sugars that they need to grow . This chemical process is called photosynthesis . Here is how photosynthesis works.
• A high concentration of minerals in the plant roots creates an unequal pressure (osmosis) that pulls water from the soil and pushes the water up into the plant. • The water travels through a series of vessels in the plant's stem to the leaves, where it is used for photosynthesis. These vessels are called the xylum . The leaves also have veins that carry water to the green photosynthetic cells called chloroplasts (stores chlorophyll) . • Photosynthetic cells ( chloroplasts ) found inside the leaves of all green plants absorbs the sun's energy . • Tiny openings in the leaves called stomates allows carbon dioxide to pass from the surrounding air into the leaf (a plants way of breathing). • The sunlight splits (separates) water's hydrogen atoms from its oxygen atoms. 6 hydrogen atoms are now release d into the chloroplast to combine with 6 CO2 atoms. The 6 hydrogen atoms now combine with the 6 carbon dioxide atoms to form one gluocose molecule plus 6 atoms of oxygen . This is the chemical formula for photosynthesis : 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + Sunlight = C6H12O6 (glucose) + 6 O2
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