What significance do you think the discovery of the Hill reaction might have had on the understanding of the photosynthetic process?

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The discovery of the Hill reaction was a landmark for several reasons:
(1) It showed that oxygen evolution could occur without reduction of $C O_{2}$ , providing evidence for separate light and dark reactions and the splitting of water, (2) It showed that chloroplasts could carry out a light driven reduction of an electron acceptor and (3) It gave biochemical evidence that the light reaction of photosynthesis is entirely located in the chloroplast.

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