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Light Intensity Effect On Butterbur Plant

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Light intensity Effect on Butterbur Plant
Karim Sharaf
Experimental Biology
11 / 4 / 2015

Abstract In this experiment, we designed our methods to test the influence of blue light source on our plant model butterbur plants. Different frequencies and wavelength of light, makes it visualized as different in color with different capacity of energy to be carried with it. Therefore this experiment is going to test the effect of blue light source with different light sources to conclude that high intensity light source will be more productive in mass for butterbur plants. In this experiment, three light sources will be tested on butterbur plants under controlled conditions. We will perform the experiment under controlled …show more content…

Introduction The color theory in physics states that we only have three primary colors which are red, green and blue. All the other colors are simply a mixture of different frequencies of each primary color. We see those lights as they get reflected and absorbed by a certain object. Our human eyes are only able to perceive colors within frequency range from 390 nm to 700 nm. That means due to the variation of frequencies and wavelengths, our eyes cannot actually visualize all reflected light from an object. The theory of light also suggests that everything in this worlds is actually colorless. As objects have different abilities to absorb and reflect certain colors of lights, they tend to appear colored to our visual system (Hugh 1949). One of the most important features of light is energy transporting. Light can carry different amounts of energy as they have different frequencies. The differences in frequencies represents the ability of carrying energy per wave. This is an important feature to study since plants are capturing those photons by the process of photosynthesis and turn it into more sufficient and usable chemical energy with present of CO2 and H2O (Bains 2014).
Producing energy in plants relies on two specific organelles under two different conditions. The first condition is when light is present. Plants tend to rely on photosynthesis to produce their energy compound. Chloroplasts are the main organelle for this process to happen.

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