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A Debate: Do Plants Have Sensation?

Thomas Aquinas College Lectures & Talks

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The Sensing of Light

Plants bend towards light mak it's not the plant's seam blue, but rather the absorption of a photon and the subsequent changes that this causes. The 20 11 discovery that melan cites the skin cells that produce melonand contain rhedopson, a light receptor found in the eye puts in sharp relief the gratuitousness of attributing sight to plants.

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