Exploring Photosynthesis in a Leaf

Exploring Photosynthesis in a Leaf
By David E. Watson
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The Busy Leaf
A beautiful green summer leaf (I drew it myself with only two colored pencils).
Warm summer days. The sun is shining. The leaves are just hanging there, doing nothing but looking pretty and wiggling in the wind.

Wrong! It looks peaceful, but those leaves are busy. At speeds almost beyond our comprehension, thousands of chemical reactions and processes are occuring every second, inside thousands of cells.

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