Page 173 - The Miracle in the Cell

HARUN YAHYA

lants play a huge role in keeping our Earth
livable. Plants clean the air that we breathe
and moderate our planet's temperature. If
plants did not release oxygen into the air
we breathe, neither humans nor animals
would live for very long. The amount of oxygen
in the atmosphere would soon be depleted, and all living things
would die of suffocation.
A large portion of our nutrients is also derived from plants,
which prepare these nutrients from three basic substances: earth, sun-
light, and water. In spite of this, each plant species has a particular
shape, color, taste and smell unique to it, which hasn't changed for
thousands of years.
As with all other functions, plants' ability to produce nutrients
for themselves, as well as for animals and humans, is a result of the
special properties found in their cells. Plant cells have a different
structure from humans' and animals' cells, and have been created in
such a way as to be the source of nutrients for all living organisms,
besides cleaning and refreshing the atmosphere.
Even though plant cells seem stationary, there is great activity
within. At every second they are absorbing water and other minerals
and elements they need from the earth. To these they add the carbon
dioxide absorbed from the air and most importantly, energy from the
sun to produce nutrients and clean oxygen for animal and human life.
This feverish production is carried on within the trillions of tiny cells
in the trees that we see every day (See Figure 10.1).
The most important property distinguishing plant cells from ani-
mal cells is their ability to utilize solar energy. This they do through a
process called photosynthesis, converting the energy from the sun
into nutrients that animals and humans can use (See Figure 10.2).

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