Trees come from thin air

Lol
Thanks for the comment.

This information is actually 100% true. ~85% of the Tree's fresh mass is water, whiel the remainign 15% is dry weight. Of that dry weight ~96% comes straight from atmospheric CO2. This CO2 is fixed in a process called the Calvin cycle (which uses the products of light-driven reactions) to fix the CO2 into small sugars which are then used to make the cellulose molecules in the plant's cell walls.

I made the graph to use in my own lectures for an organismal Biology class( Big Botany component right now), and thought the fun factoid would be nice to share.

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SHHHH! You're not supposed to tell them that, it goes against "THE SCIENCE!"