Sentences with phrase «makes photosynthesis»

While the algal rubisco makes the photosynthesis more efficient, the tobacco plant wasn't completely engineered to mimic the whole process the bacteria use.

Such conditions would make photosynthesis impossible, both for the algae in the surface water directly under the ice and those dwelling deeper in the ice close to the ice - water interface.

But the carbon nanotubes themselves also somehow seemed to make photosynthesis better, all on their own.

They do this for the same reason they shun green light: to make photosynthesis, which prefers blue and red light, as efficient as possible.

Not exact matches

But a paper published in the journal Nature in 2007, which we learned about from a BBC Earth story and is still making the rounds among scientists, suggests that the key to photosynthesis might work only due to a totally bizarre effect of quantum physics.

«Edible Growth shows real growth, an intensifying flavor and structure, makes smart use of natural processes like fermentation and photosynthesis, and lowers the use of resources.»

This research aims to improve rice's photosynthesis to make it more productive and efficient in using resources like water, light, and nutrients.

Since our readers are looking for experiments to try with their 5 - 12 year olds, we feel that making a parallel comparison of «breathing» or respiration for plants and humans helps children to better understand the process of photosynthesis at a younger age.

They do occur naturally as a plant breaks down nitrogen during photosynthesis, though they are also known to be commercially made and used in the preparation of some foods.

«In these environments that are dominated by marine plants, photosynthesis and respiration cause large differences in CO2 concentrations and the addition of anthropogenic carbon make these day - to - night differences even larger than they would be without that extra carbon,» said George Waldbusser, an Oregon State marine ecologist and co-author on the study, who serves as Pacella's Ph.D. adviser.

Steve: One of the points you make in the article is just how much of the photosynthesis that is carried on now, human beings kind of take advantage of, and it's an astounding percentage of all the photosynthesis in the world.

In return the plant serves the fungus food made during photosynthesis.

To make their case, the researchers first point to the 2016 discovery that Synechocystis cyanobacteria, single - celled organisms capable of photosynthesis, act like ocelli.

If plant life does exist on a planet like Kepler - 186f, its photosynthesis could have been influenced by the star's red - wavelength photons, making for a color palette that's very different than the greens on Earth.

A tree's leaf, a blade of grass, a single algal cell: all make fuel from the simple combination of water, sunlight and carbon dioxide through the miracle of photosynthesis.

Cells specialized for low light to still make decent amounts of food in dim conditions, as measurements of photosynthesis (pictured here), showed.

A photosynthesis concept map might have «plants» and «photosynthesis» in different circles, plus a line from the first to the second labeled «make food by.»

It's already clear that young trees grown in partial enclosures respond to high CO2 with a growth spurt, stepping up photosynthesis and making more leaves and wood.

One way of making these processes cleaner is by using light energy, similar to how photosynthesis operates in nature.

«We don't ask students in science class to make up their own minds over whether they believe in photosynthesis or if the earth is round,» she said.

Now, a new study from Barros reveals that the increase in forest photosynthesis and growth made possible by tropical cyclones in the southeastern United States captures hundreds of times more carbon than is released by all vehicles in the U.S. in a given year.

They don't even practice photosynthesis, the basic method of energy - making common to nearly all plants.

In most plants, the enzyme works very slowly, but the algal version made the plant more efficient at photosynthesis and made it grow faster, researchers report in Nature.

To make things even fuzzier, the CO2 concentration in Hawaii quickly dipped below 400 ppm as plants greened during the Northern Hemisphere's growing season, soaking up CO2 through photosynthesis.

Plants, for the most part, adopt a different feeding, or «trophic,» strategy, making their own food through photosynthesis.

«That really would make it like photosynthesis,» Meyer says.

Whereas natural photosynthesis, after multiple reactions, converts water, carbon dioxide and sunlight into oxygen and energy - rich fuels such as sugar, Meyer's version converts water and carbon dioxide into oxygen, hydrogen and carbon monoxide — and the latter can be combined with hydrogen to eventually make a fuel such as methanol.

Reliant on the algae for food via photosynthesis, the jellyfish make a daily migration across the lake, following the arc of the sun.

Forests remove carbon from the air during photosynthesis and store it in wood and roots, making these forests what scientists call carbon sinks.

With artificial photosynthesis, scientists can make hydrogen under sunny skies to store energy, then turn it back into water when they need the energy back.

Since the 1950s, biologists have known that photosynthetic cyanobacteria make microcompartments, called carboxysomes, which house an important photosynthesis enzyme.

Though the disc shape makes the leaf less efficient at photosynthesis, Simon says that the benefits of attracting bats outweigh this energetic cost: bats are good pollinators, and their large home range means they can take pollen to plants far apart from each other, and so help their reproduction, he says.

«Solar - to - fuel system recycles CO2 to make ethanol and ethylene: Efficient, light - powered production of fuel via artificial photosynthesis.»

To make up for having their roots exposed, some lineages adopted a kind of water - saving photosynthesis called crassulacean acid metabolism that likely helped them survive only on fog and rain; it increased their diversification rate by a remarkable 20.3 %.

Here, the presence of certain traits, such as the C4 photosynthesis pathway or nitrogen fixation, made a bigger difference to the plots» overall health than the number of species.

To maximize energy absorption for photosynthesis, especially when the suns have vastly different colors or if at least one of the suns is dim, plants — or, more correctly, their extraterrestrial analogs — may use one or more types of light - absorbing pigments that absorb across a broad range of wavelengths, which would tend to make the plant appear black or gray (main image).

In photosynthesis, sunlight and heat make chemical energy (in the form of wood or fossil fuel); fire uses chemical energy to produce light and heat.

«A very promising route to making a carbon - containing fuel is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide (or carbon monoxide) using solar - produced hydrogen,» said Fujita, who leads the artificial photosynthesis group in the Brookhaven Chemistry Department.

«While photosynthesis is extremely good at oxidizing water, the truth is many man - made processes of doing these things are not that good,» said Thomas Jaramillo, a researcher at the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis in Stanford University's Department of Chemical Engineering.

Billions of planktonic organisms, too tiny to be seen with the naked eye, make this valuable service possible: When carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves in seawater, various species convert it to organic carbon and other organic components during photosynthesis.

If ozone is contained in the atmospheres of an extrasolar planet, it is assumed that the planet has some living organisms that generate oxygen by photosynthesis because ozone is made up of oxygen.

blue - green bacteria Microorganisms that live in the water and make their own food through photosynthesis.

Earlier this year, scientists found an invasion in the making: A sea slug that regularly feasts on algae was found to have absorbed algal genes — the ones used to do photosynthesis.

I enjoyed so much to start thinking in the capability of small things to make a notable difference in biological systems, such as how the properties of the cell membranes are influenced by its chemical composition, and how the food chain is mainly supported by the photosynthesis reaction of plants and algae, which ultimately lead us to survive.

Like a plant, these algae use photosynthesis to make food.

Dramatic progress has been made in recent years in understanding the fundamental reaction of photosynthesis.

«You want to make something that is like gasoline with similar properties but in a renewable fashion — that's what artificial photosynthesis will do,» he said.

Through photosynthesis, phytoplankton absorbs sunlight, which it stores in sugars it makes from CO2 and water.

Seeds provide the growing seedling with all the energy it requires until it is large enough to make its own energy through photosynthesis.

This creation of oxygen by photosynthesis changed our planet's atmosphere and made our lives possible.