Why and HOW do plants create fats?

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Take coconut trees for example. They photosynthesize, and consume water and nutrients from the soil. They create coconuts that are very high in fats.

But where does the fat come from?

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Plant metabolism. Little organelles called plastids assemble chains of fatty acids from carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. Then these go into a weird structure called endoplasmatic reticulum where they get assembled further.

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