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Which scientist discovered oxygen's role in photosynthesis?

photosynthesis

[foh-tuh-sin-thuh-sis] / ˌfoʊ təˈsɪn θə sɪs /
NOUN
making food from sun
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That diversity gives scientists a rare opportunity to examine how plants can transition between different forms of photosynthesis.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

These plants lack chlorophyll and do not carry out photosynthesis.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Under visible-light illumination in an aqueous solution, the nanoreactor achieved an H2O2 photosynthesis rate of 3.24 mmol gcat.-1 h-1.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

Through photosynthesis, they would begin the extremely slow process of altering the planet's atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

The usual way of looking at them is as enslaved creatures, captured to supply ATP for cells unable to respire on their own, or to provide carbohydrate and oxygen for cells unequipped for photosynthesis.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

He suspects that these minerals may have been deposited while the earth's atmosphere was in a transition state, just beginning to accumulate the oxygen that was being released by the photosyntheses of slow-living, primitive plants.

From Time Magazine Archive



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