How Much Time Elapsed from When Ole Rømer Discovered That

question 50

Multiple Choice

How much time elapsed from when Ole Rømer discovered that light did not travel at infinite speed to a time when the speed of light was first measured accurately?

• A) No time at all-it was Rømer himself who measured this speed accurately!
• B) 28 years
• C) almost 1000 years
• D) more than a century but less than two centuries

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Photosystem I

A component of the photosynthesis process in plants and cyanobacteria that captures light energy for ATP and NADPH production.

Noncyclic Electron Pathway

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Hydrocarbon Skeleton

The backbone of organic molecules composed entirely of carbon and hydrogen atoms.

G3P

Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, a key intermediary molecule in both the glycolysis and Calvin cycles, involved in the metabolic process of producing energy.