The selected article pertains to the topic of photosynthesis, making it a relevant and significant piece of text on the biological subject. In sum, it highlights the concept of actively utilizing bamboos to reverse the polluting nature of the construction industry since these plants capture carbon from the atmosphere to build their rigid biostructures (TDT par. 8). Firstly, it is important to begin the comment with a focus on photosynthesis, which is an essentially biological process. I think that bamboos’ exceptional ability to capture carbon faster than any other vegetation is worth using in a demanding industry of construction. Photosynthesis is the very first step of enabling the usability of sunlight energy within a biosphere. In other words, the sun’s radiation in photons is transferred to chemical energy held with the bonds of an organic molecule. Bamboo is the fastest growing plant, which is often confused with a tree, but it is technically grass. Knowing the fact that the majority of a plant’s structure is made from polysaccharides, specifically cellulose, it is evident that bamboo is an efficient producer of glucose. Therefore, the photosynthesis process can output a substantial amount of glucose chains only if it is capturing a significant amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere because the carbon in glucose comes from this gas.
Secondly, throughout the course, I learned that a photosynthetic reaction not only captures carbon dioxide and sunlight energy to create a glucose molecule but also releases oxygen into the air as a byproduct. Considering the fact that cellular respiration requires oxygen to facilitate the electron chain transport reaction to extract ATP from glucose, the photosynthetic exceptionalism of bamboos is unparalleled. Therefore, I think that bamboo’s rate of photosynthetic activity and efficiency requires further and in-depth research and analysis (TDT par. 6). It is clear that its high carbon-capturing capability coupled with its usability in the construction industry, which is known to cause pollution, makes the plant a powerful solution to climate change.
Thirdly, I am convinced there is no more significant process on Earth that has laid links between animate and inanimate nature than the photosynthesis of green plants. Photosynthetic plant organisms with the participation of green pigments of chlorophylls capture the unlimited cosmic light energy of sunlight, assimilating inorganic compounds of terrestrial origin, creating organic substances with electromagnetic light energy stored in them in chemical bonds, which feed themselves and all life on Earth. Without exaggeration, we can say that photosynthesis is a perpetual motion machine and the preserver of life on Earth. In addition, photosynthesis plays the role of an environment-forming factor in the Earth’s biosphere, providing gas homeostasis of the atmosphere, absorbing carbon dioxide, the respiration product of all living organisms, and releasing oxygen, which is necessary for aerobically breathing living organisms. In addition, the oxygen it gives off maintains an ozone shield that protects all living things from the harmful effects of ultraviolet rays. The latter created the conditions for the emergence of life from the ocean on the Earth’s land surface.
Fourthly, I should note that photosynthesis, being an ecological environment-forming factor in the biosphere itself, is directly dependent on external environmental factors. The ecology of photosynthesis itself is a consequence of the interaction of photosynthetic plants with specific environmental conditions, which must be clearly known as a way of its regulation and effective productivity in various natural environments. It is important to note that any organism, including a photosynthetic plant organism, such as bamboo, is in an environment that is a complex of environmental conditions that affect life. The complex of conditions is made up of elements of environmental factors. Such factors that act on the body cause adaptive reactions in them are called environmental factors. Environmental factors can be abiotic, such as light, temperature, environmental pH, salinity, atmospheric pressure, soil and air humidity, and wind, that is, factors of inanimate nature. Biotic factors include the impact of living beings and anthropogenic associated with human activities, leading to a change in nature as a habitat. The action of environmental factors can stimulate the life processes of plants, and limit, slowing them down. Light, temperature, moisture, and edaphic factors are considered to be the main factors of the photosynthesis process.
Lastly, I think bamboo’s photosynthetic exceptionalism is manifested in the fact that light is one of the most important factors of photosynthesis, as it is a source of the necessary radiant energy for biochemical processes. In other words, it participates in the formation of organic substances. In the life of a plant, it is important that there is enough light so that in the process of photosynthesis, they produce more substance than is necessary for the flow of respiration costs. There must be an obligatory positive balance, without which the growth and existence of a plant are unthinkable. For the process of plant photosynthesis, it is highly important that there are no zones on Earth where plants cannot grow due to lack of light.
Work Cited
TDT. “Planting Bamboo Can Combat Climate Change.” The Daily Tribune, Web.