Sweet Beets

This video looks at the sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) as a model organism to explain the process of photosynthesis. It walks students through the growing season of sugar beets and the basic process of converting CO2 into carbohydrates.

This entire case study can be found on the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science website at the following address:
http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/c...

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