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Who discovered that sunlight is essential for the plant process which somehow purifies the air fouled by burning candles or breathing animals?

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T.W Engelmann
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Joseph Priestley
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Jan Ingenhousz
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Julius von Sachs
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The correct option is C Jan Ingenhousz
Jan Ingenhousz (1730-1799) showed that sunlight is essential to the plant process that somehow purifies the air fouled by burning candles or breathing animals. Ingenhousz in an elegant experiment with an aquatic plant showed that in bright sunlight, small bubbles were formed around the green parts while in the dark they did not. Later he identified these bubbles to be of oxygen. Hence he showed that it is only the green part of the plants that could release oxygen.

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