Life is tough; living with arsenic. The bush of life (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Sunday, December 05, 2010, 04:21 (5102 days ago) @ dhw

There is an algae that eats carbon monoxide(a normally lethal gas), and produces O2. No there is a bush that eats arsenic, and (I am assuming) produces O2. Why is it strange to think that things like these are in fact purpose driven life forms. They fill a very basic, yet subtle need, removing toxins from our environment. I would actually be quite interested in knowing more on the early plant life. I have a sneaking suspicion that if we were able to examine what chemicals they absorbed, we would find others that absorbed nominally toxic gases or chemicals and produced oxygen or nitrogen as a byproduct, along with CO2 as they decayed after death.