You Are Carrying Out an Experiment on Several Aquatic Plants

question 71

Multiple Choice

You are carrying out an experiment on several aquatic plants in your fish tank. You decide to expose two of the plants to green light and two to blue light. You want to determine which type of light is best for the light reactions, so to reach your conclusions, you decide to record the amount of oxygen bubbles produced. Which of the following results would be expected?

• A) There would be more bubbles from the plants in blue light than from those in green light.
• B) No bubbles would be produced in either green light or blue light.
• C) There would be more bubbles from the plants in green light than from those in blue light.
• D) There would be the same number of bubbles from plants in blue or green light.

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