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How was photosynthesis discovered?
Jan Ingenhousz published the research on photosynthesis in 1779.
- He placed plants into a transparent container and submerged them in water
- Small bubbles appeared on the bottom of the plants
- The bubbles only appeared on the green parts
- He found that the bubbles stopped producing when they were taken out of sunlight
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When did photosynthesis first appear in nature?
Until recently, blue-green algae were thought to be the first organisms to photosynthesize, about 2.7 billion years ago.
In a 2018 study, scientists found out that ancient microbes have been photosynthesizing 1 billion years earlier than thought.
- complex life would have been able to evolve earlier
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Bacteria with stolen photosynthesis
Researchers have uncovered a bacteria that uses stolen technology.
- The bacterium stole photosynthesis-related genes from a different bacteria
- This bacteria now has a central reaction center, an inner sunlight-capturing ring, but it also has a new type of outer ring
- This study shows that this species independently evolved its own solar-energy trapping technology
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What if a star emits a different color of light?
Would chlorophyll's green pigment still be the best? or would plants be a different color?
New research published uses numerical models of chemistry and physics of photosynthesis to find the optimal wavelengths of light.
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The red edge
The earth's surface is covered with green plants and bacteria, which absorb a lot of red light and reflect a lot of visible and infrared light from the sun.
This leads to this really cool feature of life on earth: the red edge.
- satellites around earth use this to trace vegetation growth
- astrobiologists may be able to look for this feature to find a sign of life
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What if the edge is not red?
It might be blue, or not even visible light.
The researchers' goal was to figure out where future telescopes should look for a red edge, or whatever color it is.
These findings could help scientists find vegetation on other planets in the next few decades.
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