HORTICULTURE

HORTICULTURE SCIENCE

PLANT BIOLOGY

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What does the word part “photo” mean?
A
dark
B
light
C
plant
D
put together
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -photo-a combining form meaning “light” (photobiology); also used to represent “photographic” or “photograph” in the formation of compound words: photocopy. Also especially before a vowel, phot-.

Detailed explanation-2: -The word Photography literally means ‘drawing with light’, which derives from the Greek photo, meaning light and graph, meaning to draw. Photography is the process of recording an image – a photograph – on lightsensitive film or, in the case of digital photography, via a digital electronic or magnetic memory.

Detailed explanation-3: -Photo-or phot-is a prefix the comes from the Greek language meaning light, and the root word-synthesis, also from the Greek for-syntithenai, meaning to put together. Photo-synthesis therefore means “light-to put together".

Detailed explanation-4: -Definitions of photo. a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material. synonyms: exposure, photograph, pic, picture.

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