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Evidence for the liberation of O2 from water during photosynthesis comes from

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Release of 18O if water contains the same
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Isolated chloroplast supplied with reducing agent like potassium ferrocyanide evolves O2 even in absence of CO2
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Photosynthetic bacteria do not Iiberate O2 and they use H2S for obtaining reducing power
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All of the above
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Solution

The correct option is A All of the above
A. Ruben and Kamen used the radioactive isotope of oxygen (18O) in water and found that O2 liberated in the process was isotopically labelled. On the contrary, when 18O in CO2 was used, the evolved O2 did not show radioactivity.
B. Hill and Bendall isolated chloroplast from leaves of Stellaria media and experimented in the absence of CO2.
2A+2H2O2AH2+O2
In the presence of Artificial Hill reagent Potassium ferricyanide and sunlight, this experiment is performed.
C. Van Niel observed that during bacterial photosynthesis hydrogen sulphide was broken down to hydrogen and sulphur. The hydrogen reduces carbon dioxide to synthesize carbohydrate and sulphur is accumulated as a waste product.
Hence, the correct answer is 'All the above'.

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