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alix_1981 mady-is-kool grady resources grady:i thought this was dumb. i don’t understand why we have to do these things when we know what the result is supposed to be. • paper-w-colors-photo.jpg • Wikipedia-photosynthesis wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the different colors on it. wilco-tweety: yada lorem yada ipsum here too. I like the wind when it whistles through the weeping willows. wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the different colors on it. yada lorem yada ipsum here too. wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the different colors on it. yada lorem yada ipsum here too. biology: plants: photosynthesis: separating photosynthetic pigments by paper chromatography (lab) there are 129 students working on this here right now when we tried this in my group it didn’t work out. In what order are the pigments supposed to be?
alix_1981 mady-is-kool grady resources grady:i thought this was dumb. i don’t understand why we have to do these things when we know what the result is supposed to be. • paper-w-colors-photo.jpg • Wikipedia-photosynthesis wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the different colors on it. wilco-tweety: yada lorem yada ipsum here too. I like the wind when it whistles through the weeping willows. wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the different colors on it. yada lorem yada ipsum here too. wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the different colors on it. yada lorem yada ipsum here too. biology: plants: photosynthesis: separating photosynthetic pigments by paper chromatography (lab) there are 129 students working on this here right now when we tried this in my group it didn’t work out. In what order are the pigments supposed to be?
biology: plants: photosynthesis: separating photosynthetic pigments by paper chromatography (lab) there are 129 students working on this here right now when we tried this in my group it didn’t work out. In what order are the pigments supposed to be? grady mady-is-kool alix_1981 Ms. Vance’s biology class grady: i thought this was dumb. i don’t understand why we have to do these things when we know what the result is supposed to be. • group workspace • next assignment / syllabus • questions for Ms. Vance? • my classmates wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the different colors on it. Resources wilco-tweety: yada lorem yada ipsum here too. I like the wind when it whistles through the weeping willows. • taiz and zeigler chapter • Wikipedia-photosynthesis • other uploaded stuff • an app for this lab • off-topic.jpg wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the different colors on it. yada lorem yada ipsum here too. wilco-tweety: I uploaded a photo of the paper with the different colors on it. yada lorem yada ipsum here too.
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