Anything to do with chloroplasts or anything like that?
Amanda please please elaborate on what could happen to the organisms if the wavelength of light was changed!
Anything to do with chloroplasts or anything like that?
Amanda please please elaborate on what could happen to the organisms if the wavelength of light was changed!
Yeah… it might turn them green. You should try it with some white carnations.
It is called transpiration.
Not related to chloroplasts.
Humm. Theoretically, it SHOULD. If water plants (e.g. seaweed, algae, etc.) are depending on light, then dying the water green would make it so that they aren’t getting the right color of light. Because since chloroplasts are green, we know that they reflect yellow and blue light. (An object’s surface color is the sum of the colors/wavelengths of light it reflects and does not absorb. Black things absorb all light, and register as not having a color. White things reflect all light, and all the colors in the visible light spectrum add up to white.) So, the way chloroplasts work is by absorbing a certain color/wavelength of light. The most effective wavelength for green plants is red. Which is why they reflect back blue and yellow light to make green. That being said, I don’t know if dying the water green would change the actual wavelength of the light (because that’s how colors register to plants, as wavelengths) which is what would mess up the plants’ chloroplasts. It is a really intriguing question though.
Edit: If the wavelength of the light was changed, then the plants wouldn’t be getting the most optimal wavelength (the wavelength that the chloroplasts can use the best), so they would possibly die because they wouldn’t be able to convert the solar energy into glucose efficiently enough to keep alive. Or it’s possible that their growth would slow dramatically. Either way it would not be good for the plants.