Photoperiod meaning

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The daily duration of light and dark to which an organism is exposed, considered especially with regard to its effect on growth and development.
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The daily duration of light and dark to which an organism is exposed, considered especially with regard to its effect on growth and development.
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The duration of an organism's daily exposure to light, considered especially with regard to the phenomena of photoperiodism.
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(biology) The normal duration of natural daylight experienced by an organism; daylength.
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The number of daylight hours best suited to the growth and maturation of an organism.
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Photoperiod Sentence Examples

  • Day length was artificially manipulated to mimic the prevailing mid-summer photoperiod (16 h light: 8 h dark, 16L: 8D ).

  • In the case of hamsters the critical photoperiod is 12.5 hours.

  • The time taken to form primordia varies with the length of the inductive photoperiod.

  • photoperiod manipulation in each group.

  • photoperiod change.

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