Who gave the first action spectrum for photosynthesis?
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a
Sachs
b
Arnon
c
Arnold
d
Engelmann
answer is D.
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T.W. Engelmann used a prism to split light into its spectral components and then illuminated a green alga, Cladophora, placed in a suspension of aerobic bacteria. The bacteria were used to detect the sites of O2 evolution. He observed that the bacteria accumulated mainly in the region of blue and red light of the split spectrum. A first action spectrum of photosynthesis was thus described. It resembles roughly the absorption spectra of chlorophyll a and b.