The Effect of Different Colored Lights on Photosynthesis
My group studied the effect of light on photosynthesis in our experiment. Photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplast of the cell. Photosynthesis happens when water is absorbed by the roots of green plants and is carried to the leaves by the xylem, and carbon dioxide is obtained from air that enters the leaves through the stomata and diffuses to the cells that have chlorophyll. In our experiment we tested how different colored lights would affect how fast the rate of photosynthesis would happen. The rate of photosynthesis is affected by the different wavelengths of light a plant is exposed to because different pigments in chloroplasts absorb different wavelengths for use in photosynthesis(Biology4kids). The average green plant will absorb blue and red into their accessory pigments and will reflect green which is why we see green when we look at plants(Carlson, 9). In our experiment my hypothesis was if you change the light to a warmer color then the rate of photosynthesis will occur faster.
in our experiment our group used fresh spinach leave chads to help figure out how photosynthesis was affected by light. An investigation on photosynthetic production based on the absorption spectra of pigments present in spinach leaves, …show more content…
we also concluded that green and blue produced almost no photosynthesis and took 16-19 minutes to have one chad do photosynthesis. This is because the accessory pigments absorb red, yellow, and white which is why they photosynthesized the fastest(Carlson, 9). On the contrary, the green and blue photosynthesized the slowest because the spinach plant reflects those colors rather than absorbs(Carlson, 9). This is why the data came out like this because when plants absorb they photosynthesize and when they reflect they still photosynthesize but much slower(Carlson,
My group studied the effect of light on photosynthesis in our experiment. Photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplast of the cell. Photosynthesis happens when water is absorbed by the roots of green plants and is carried to the leaves by the xylem, and carbon dioxide is obtained from air that enters the leaves through the stomata and diffuses to the cells that have chlorophyll. In our experiment we tested how different colored lights would affect how fast the rate of photosynthesis would happen. The rate of photosynthesis is affected by the different wavelengths of light a plant is exposed to because different pigments in chloroplasts absorb different wavelengths for use in photosynthesis(Biology4kids). The average green plant will absorb blue and red into their accessory pigments and will reflect green which is why we see green when we look at plants(Carlson, 9). In our experiment my hypothesis was if you change the light to a warmer color then the rate of photosynthesis will occur faster.
in our experiment our group used fresh spinach leave chads to help figure out how photosynthesis was affected by light. An investigation on photosynthetic production based on the absorption spectra of pigments present in spinach leaves, …show more content…
we also concluded that green and blue produced almost no photosynthesis and took 16-19 minutes to have one chad do photosynthesis. This is because the accessory pigments absorb red, yellow, and white which is why they photosynthesized the fastest(Carlson, 9). On the contrary, the green and blue photosynthesized the slowest because the spinach plant reflects those colors rather than absorbs(Carlson, 9). This is why the data came out like this because when plants absorb they photosynthesize and when they reflect they still photosynthesize but much slower(Carlson,