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Why is the world green?

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Back Garden Biology
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Lindsay searches for the truth about our verdant green world and tackles a mystery about her rose-bushes: who ate all the greenfly?
We live on a green planet and it's hard to imagine it being any different. But the fact that most plants are covered in lush green leaves needs some explaining. Part of the explanation lies deep inside plant cells and part of it with the insects that feed on them. Join Lindsay as she searches for the truth about our verdant world and tackles a mystery that unfolds on her rose-bushes: who ate all the greenfly?

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Back Garden Biology
People
Lindsay Turnbull
Keywords
greenfly
chlorophyll
prism
sparrow
roses
herbivores
Photosynthesis
garden
biology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Date Added: 24/05/2020
Duration: 00:14:01

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