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Photosynthesis Is Dependent on Light Waves of Specific Lengths


The top of the scheme pictures a thread of Chladophora with associated assemblies of bacteria(grey areas). At the bottom is a diagram that illustrates the connection between the length of the light waves and the rate of photosynthesis (T. W. ENGELMANN, 1882).



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