billabong,
The following was a little insulting, I didn't miss it there was just a real cute girl in my class that I had my eye on
Actually, because of reasons like that I missed most of the middle school classes too.
"Plants don't need UV?
You must have missed the lecture on photosynthesis in 5th grade"
I posted after I had searched on line to double check what I had intuitively thought. I read that:
Chlorophyll a & b absorb light in the red and blue regions of the visible spectrum...
if your 5th grade class was furhter along than mine, perhaps you'd be willing to share...
CDT