Photoperiodism
Photoperiodism is an organism's response to the relative lengths of day and night (i.e., the photoperiod). We have always known that plants are tied to the seasons: each kind of ...
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Photoperiodism
Many plants and animals have the ability to measure changes in the duration of day and night and respond in ways appropriate to climatic cycles accompanying these changes. It was first ...
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Photoperiod
The light phase in a cycle of alternating periods of light and dark. Changes in light-dark cycles, such as changes in daylength, are the most dependable external time cues (zeitgebers). Th...
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