The Importance Of Plants In The Environment

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Plants plays a crucial role in the environment. They are the pillars of life on earth and is essential resource of every living organism. Plants provide humans the food for the survival, both direct and in indirect aspects. They serves as a resource for habitat not only for humans but for myriad species with different uses. And also, Oxygen is brought by plants, as a byproduct of photosynthesis through the different processes and cycle present in cell. Stomata is one of the part of cell that functions as a way that allow oxygen, carbon dioxide and water to move into and out of a leaf and It also facilitates the process of transpiration. This phenomenon occurs along with exchange of gases through this pores. As the gases get out through this pores they carry along with them water vapours. A stomata is a microscopic pore on the surface of plants. It is surrounded by a pair of specialized epidermal cells called guard cells, Guard cells are responsible for opening and closing the stoma. A number of environmental conditions will affect stomatal aperture (Zeiger et al., 1987). They are v...

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