Photosynthesis
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1. Would you illuminate your house plants with a green light bulb? Why or why not?
It would not be a wise choice to put a plant under a green light bulb. The reason for this is that due to the fact that the leaves are green they reflect green light. This shining green light onto the flowers will c ....
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.... are the lowest food on the food chart. Without them many heterotrops would die from starvation.
3. Why did you put your syringes containing leaf material in the dark prior to illumination?
The reason this was done was to make sure as little oxygen as possible was contained in the leaf material. This coused the experimrnt to run properly. If the leaf material was not placed in the dark, the dark reaction would not have occured using up all the oxygen. If there was still oxygen in the leaf ....
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