Rate
At the compensation point, the rate of photosynthesis is balanced to the rate of respiration. Products of photosynthesis are used up in respiration so that the plant is neither consuming nor building biomass.
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Famous quotes containing the word rate:
“We honor motherhood with glowing sentimentality, but we don’t rate it high on the scale of creative occupations.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)
“This is the essential distinction—even opposition—between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, the film objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer—in actual practice it is rated very low—we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.”
—Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)
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—D.W. Winnicott (20th century)