Forest Mims III: The Country Scientist!!

"The miracle of colorful light is a basis of the miracle of life..."

"Cells in the eye allow us to perceive hues determined by plants' molecules of chlorophyll"

Adapted from: The San Antonio EXPRESS - NEWS, Monday, July 7, 2008.

Colored photo shows rainbow over landscape, and Mr. Mims' caption reads:

"These plants on the Mims place transform water and carbon dioxide into glucose under the influence of blue and red light, shown here along the opposite sides of a rare rainbow."

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