Example Sentences

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The host, in-turn, provides it with carbon fixed photosynthetically by its chloroplasts.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2024

"Overall, in this form of carbon sequestration, one out of every sixteen photosynthetically fixed carbon atoms might be sequestered into carbonates," the authors write.

From Science Daily • Sep. 21, 2023

For the same reasons, plants pigment molecules absorb only light in the wavelength range of 700 nm to 400 nm; plant physiologists refer to this range for plants as photosynthetically active radiation.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The study found that 600-year-old ginkgos are as reproductively and photosynthetically vigorous as their 20-year-old peers.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2020