The main variables which affect photosynthesis are light, water, CO2 concentration and temperature.
On a deeper level, other factors like amount of chlorophyll, availability of nutrients (eg Mg is needed for chlorophyll synthesis) will also affect the rate of photosynthesis, though these are rarely covered in discussion of this topic.
The thing is that photosynthesis will be held back by whichever factor is in shortest supply.
As I sit in my study in England, the sun is shining brightly, but the temperature outside is only 5ºC. I suspect the rate of photosynthesis is limited by temperature today.
Yesterday was a dull day, but in the middle of the day it was not cold and I suspect there wasn't enough light for photosynthesis. If I had turned the security lights on my house on, the plants in my garden might (possibly) have photosynthesised faster.
In summer, some farmers growing crops in glasshouses actually increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the air as all their plants have plenty of water and light and the temperature is near the best possible for photosynthesis.
A good way to investigate this might be with the help of algae and you can use the 'Immobilised Algae' practical for this.
Although water is needed as a raw material for photosynthesis, don't bother trying to investigate water as a variable - plants normally wilt and wither long before water restricts photosynthesis at the biochemical level. They need water to support the plant to face the sun as well as a raw material of photosynthesis.
The simplest equation for photosynthesis:-
Carbon dioxide + water -----(in light, with chlorophyll and enzymes)----> sugar + oxygen
Temperature speeds up all chemical reactions - photosynthesis is no exception.
Enzymes work better in warm conditions (up to about 50ºC when enzymes start to be destroyed by heat).
The idea to get across is that different conditions will be most important on different occasions. This morning, my garden could do with more warmth - yesterday, it could do with more light / sun!
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Description below
Explanation:
Alcionaceans (Alcyonacea) is an order of corals that belongs to the subclass Octocorallia, of the Anthozoa class. <em>Soft corals</em> are commonly called, since they do not produce skeletons of calcium carbonate, so they do not contribute to the construction of the reefs, although they inhabit them.
The so-called soft corals and leather or leather corals, mostly meaty in appearance, have microscopic crystals of calcite in their tissues called spicules, whose function is to give consistency to the animal's tissue, in the absence of a skeleton. The shape and distribution of the spicules are the main characteristics used in the identification of genera and species of octocorals.
In addition to soft corals, this order includes gorgonians, which replace the skeleton of hard corals, Scleractinia order, by semi-rigid structures composed of calcite and / or a substance they generate called gorgonin.
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projections that help them move
Explanation:
Euglena and paramecium both belong to the Kingdom Protista. They are very minute single cellular organisms but have many differences among them. Paramecium is more similar to animals in many of its characteristics while Euglena is more similar to plants in its characteristics. This is because Euglena just like plants can make their own foods through chloroplast while paramecium just like animals cannot make own food.
However what is common in both of these are projections that help them move
. Paramecium have projections called cilia around the whole body while Euglena has a whip like flagella which helps it to move.
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Answer:
A. Chromosomes make up genes
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The answer is oxygen and glucose
