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Colored Light Absorption Lab Report

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Grishma Patel
Chloroplast Pigments and Colored Light Absorption
Summary
The purpose of executing this lab was to see how different wavelengths and colors of light are absorbed by chloroplast pigments. The goal was to see the variations of light dependant reactions of photosynthesis based on different types of light. Spinach was used by grinding it with acetone and acquire the thylakoids used in the experiment. DCIP was used in this experiment as the oxidizing agent that will turn blue to clear when in contact with light. The experiment required us to test first the relationship between wavelength of light and absorbance. The chloroplast pigments from the tissue were used to see which wavelength of light absorbed the most light. The result of this part of the experiment showed that the wavelength 432nm had the highest absorbance of 0.286. Next, we tested the absorbance of different colored lights. This part of the experiment tested the results of absorbance of red, green, white, purple, blue and no light using DCIP. Blue light showed the highest absorbance. Finally we found the chromatography pigments of different bands based on the separation of photosynthetic pigments.

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