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biology: plants: photosynthesis:

separating photosynthetic pigments by paper chromatography (lab)

there are 129 students working on this

mady-is-kool

grady

alix_1981

here right now

when we tried this in my group it didn’t work out. In what order are the pigments supposed to be?

grady: i thought this was dumb. i don’t understand why we have to do these things when we know what the result is supposed to be.

wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the different colors on it.

wilco-tweety: yada lorem yada ipsum here too. I like the wind

when it whistles through the weeping willows. wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the

different colors on it. yada lorem yada ipsum here too. wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the

different colors on it. yada lorem yada ipsum here too.

resources

• paper-w-colors-photo.jpg• Wikipedia-photosynthesis

biology: plants: photosynthesis:

separating photosynthetic pigments by paper chromatography (lab)

there are 129 students working on this

mady-is-kool

grady

alix_1981

here right now

when we tried this in my group it didn’t work out. In what order are the pigments supposed to be?

grady: i thought this was dumb. i don’t understand why we have to do these things when we know what the result is supposed to be.

wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the different colors on it.

wilco-tweety: yada lorem yada ipsum here too. I like the wind

when it whistles through the weeping willows. wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the

different colors on it. yada lorem yada ipsum here too. wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the

different colors on it. yada lorem yada ipsum here too.

resources

• paper-w-colors-photo.jpg• Wikipedia-photosynthesis

biology: plants: photosynthesis:

separating photosynthetic pigments by paper chromatography (lab)

there are 129 students working on this

mady-is-kool

grady

alix_1981

here right now

Ms. Vance’s biology class

grady: i thought this was dumb. i don’t understand why we have to do these things when we know what the result is supposed to be.

wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the different colors on it.

when we tried this in my group it didn’t work out. In what order are the pigments supposed to be?

wilco-tweety: yada lorem yada ipsum here too. I like the wind

when it whistles through the weeping willows. wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the

different colors on it. yada lorem yada ipsum here too. wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the

different colors on it. yada lorem yada ipsum here too.

• taiz and zeigler chapter• Wikipedia-photosynthesis• other uploaded stuff• an app for this lab• off-topic.jpg

Resources

• group workspace• next assignment / syllabus• questions for Ms. Vance?• my classmates

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