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How The First Plants Came To Be By David Biiello Summary
Discussed in “How The First Plants Came to Be”, by David Biello, Earth is the planet of the plants, full of the most lush photosynthesizers. Biello strongly expresses his beliefs on how the first plant evolved from the merging of precise factors more specifically known as a host, Cyanobacteria and denoted parasitic gene. Basically, what Biello is trying to infer is how many years ago an alga ate a cyanobacteria and the first internal solar power plant was formed. In complete agreement with Biello, many can believe that genes evolve over time, all modern plants derived from a symbiotic union of merging factors and how survival conditions effect the environment. After spending so much time reading and analyzing this article I feel as if now …show more content…
Throught the article Biello in forces the idea of a symbiotic union, showing that how united as one most things work better. Biello is trying to show how living things depend on each other to grow and prosper, to form a better life and be able to survive in the environment around them by joining together to make somewhat of a super organism. During the time of the first photosynthesizer and the first host, the environment was not exactly fit for living conditions. As the time passed the food for the individual types of organisms was scarce, which caused the predators of cynobacteria to stop eating and instead begin absorbing, due to the extreme abundance of sunlight but the low amplitude of prey. “When the food runs out but sunlight is abundant, then photosynthesis works better” says Bhattacharya. This perfectly explains how survival conditions effect the environment. It shows how organisms adapt and do anything because of their will to survive. I guess the planet Earth got lucky that this will to survive and scarcity of food later developed into the extremely successful organism called a plant, which provides the human race with food, oxygen, and many other important

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