When testing the effects of colored light on plants, it is important to know the processes that would directly affected by light. It is also important to know more about light spectrum itself and where the colors place on the spectrum. Of course, the process most affected by the color of light would be Photosynthesis. In Photosynthesis, light is one of the main “ingredients” that combine to form the sugars and carbohydrates that plants use as energy and the oxygen that plants pump into the environment. Different lights affect plant and plant growth, for instance, plants reflect most green light. Plants take in different colors of light and reflect them, just like most anything does. Green plants therefore reflect green light the most and don’t take in much light. Because of this, other colors of light are more likely to benefit the growth of plants. If the plant can’t take in much of the light, as seen with green light, it will have less energy to photosynthesize with. …show more content…
Based on wavelength, the frequency and distance between waves, visible light is closer to the smaller wavelengths, with high frequency. Visible light borders infrared and x-rays on the spectrum. The wavelengths on either end can be very deadly. However, due to the change in wavelength in the visible light, the change in frequencies can be viewed as a small sample in the colors of visible light. So essentially, in this experiment, it is determined how different wavelength frequencies affect plant growth, though on a much smaller, and less deadly scale. With the visible light scale, energy varies from each end of the scale. The colors towards the right and towards x-ray and gamma rays like purple have more energy than the colors towards the right, like red. That is because red has longer wavelengths than