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In the figure given below , the black line(upper) indicates action spectrum for photosynthesis and the lighter line (lower) indicates the absorption spectrum of chlorophyll 'a' , answer the followings:
Wavelength of light nanometera(nm)
What does the action spectrum indicate? how can we plot an action spectrum? explain with an example.

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