Question

You perform an experiment using an aquatic plant to determine which color of light is most effective at driving photosynthesis. You take three plants, immersed under water, place plant A under blue light, plant B under red light, and plant C under green light. You notice bubbles coming off the leaves. More bubbles are coming from plants A and B, than plant C. How do these results determine which color of light is most effective at driving photosynthesis

Answer 1

The plants producing more bubbles indicates that photosynthesis is more effectively driven by BLUE AND RED LIGHTS.

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Step-by-step explanation:

According to this question, an experiment is being carried out to determine which color of light is most effective at driving photosynthesis. Three sets of aquatic plants (plants A, B and C) are used for this experiment. Plant A was placed under blue light, plant B under red light, and plant C under green light.

Photosynthesis is the process whereby plants manufacture their food (glucose) using sunlight energy. However, it is worthy to note that OXYGEN GAS is one of by-products of this metabolic process. Hence, as stated in this question, the bubbles noticed to be coming off the leaves is OXYGEN gas.

However, more products in a reaction denotes the fast rate of such reaction. Plants A and B produced more bubbles than plant C. This means that photosynthesis in plants A and B, which released more OXYGEN GAS as BUBBLES, is more effective under the blue and red light respectively.