Cyanobacteria Photosythesis (IMAGE)

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Cyanobacteria Photosythesis

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When cyanobacteria live in low-light conditions, such as beneath a pond surface or under the leaf litter on a forest floor, some are able to switch from using the visible light that is most conducive to their growth and photosynthetic activities to harvesting the weaker, far-red sunlight that filters down to them.

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Shireen Dooling, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University

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