Who produces oxygen you are breathing right now?

Who produces oxygen you are breathing right now?

Amazon rainforest produces 20 times more oxygen than all the people on the surface of the planet could consume. But even one breath of it could leave the amazon because all the oxygen used up there. 

Then where the oxygen come from which we are breathing right now? It comes from plants/ trees surrounding by your arear and also from the amazing ‘diatoms’.

Diatoms are photosynthetic unicellular algae. This cannot be seen individually from naked eyes but when in groups it can be seen through space. They have been called the ‘jewels of the sea’. The outer surface of the diatoms is called Frustule. Frustule is made up of inorganic Silica, enclosing the cytoplasm of diatom in, which is basically Glass. Inside diatoms, there are oil droplets that store energy when they might be having scarcity of sunlight or nutrients. These little organisms are so good at creating fatty oil that scientists have wondered whether we might use diatoms as tiny factories that turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into fuel not just for them, but for our future airplanes.

There is a huge impact of diatoms because of all photosynthesis being done on earth diatoms make 50- 80% of the oxygen. Not just oxygen, when diatoms die their silica frustules sink to the bottom of the water known as diatomaceous earth. Which is the key ingredient in beer and wine filtration, paint, and cat litter.

References:

http://tolweb.org/Diatoms/21810

https://www.wired.com/2010/08/phytoplankton-blooms-gallery/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygty9HxhFK4

Photo credit:

https://in.pinterest.com/pin/361695413819697061/

http://oceans.mit.edu/news/featured-stories/predators-in-the-plankton.html