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THE EXTRAORDINARY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
SUNLIGHT AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Plants have been doing something for hundreds of millions
of years that no high-tech lab, run by scientific specialists, has

yet been able to do: They produce their own nutrition by a
process called photosynthesis, using sunlight. A precondition of
this process, however, is that suitable light reach the plants in the
first place.
Photosynthesis is made possible by the light-sensitive
chlorophyll molecules in the plants’ cells. But chlorophyll how-
ever can make use of light at a certain wavelengths only, and the
ones emitted by the Sun are just right. (Interestingly, the one re-
quired for photosynthesis is one in the 10 25 different wave-

lengths.)
That sunlight identical to the light necessary for photosyn-
thesis shows its perfect design. In The Symbiotic Universe,
American astronomer George Greenstein writes as follows:
Chlorophyll is the molecule that accomplishes photosynthesis...
The mechanism of photosynthesis is initiated by the absorption of
sunlight by a chlorophyll molecule. But in order for this to occur,
the light must be of the right color. Light of the wrong color won't
do the trick.

A good analogy is that of a television set. In order for the set to re-
ceive a given channel it must be tuned to that channel; tune it dif-
ferently and the reception will not occur. It is the same with pho-
tosynthesis, the Sun functioning as the transmitter in the anal-
ogy and the chlorophyll molecule as the receiving TV set. If the

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