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a researcher placed a culture of cyanobacteria under green lights. within a few weeks, the appearance of the cyanobacteria changed from green to red. the researcher claimed the color change in the culture was the result of an adaptation allowing greater photosynthesis.

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The best reason to support this claim is that with green light, more phycoerythrin pigment molecules are produced and it enables more green light to be absorbed, thereby increasing the photosynthesis rate.

What is the photosynthesis rate?

The photosynthesis rate is an expression that makes reference to the amount of photosynthetic products i.e. oxygen and simple carbs (glucose molecules) produced by a unit of time, which depends on the efficiency of the pigments that absorb sunlight during this process.

Therefore, with this data, we can see that the photosynthesis rate in a given environmental condition is highly variable but it depended on the amount of photons absorbed from the solar radiation, which depends on the amount of sunlight and also the classes or types of pigments that are present in the photosynthetic cells either plan cell or also the algae cells.

Complete question:

Cyanobacteria contain a variety of pigment molecules, as shown in Table 1. As a result, the color of cyanobacteria cultures can vary significantly based on the relative amount of each pigment produced.

A researcher placed a culture of cyanobacteria under green lights. Within a few weeks, the appearance of the cyanobacteria changed from green to red. The researcher claimed the color change in the culture was the result of an adaptation allowing greater photosynthesis.

Which of the following provides the best reasoning to justify the researcher's claim?

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