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- Photosynthesis: Cooke's koki'o
- Leaves maximize sun exposure: plants
- Pigment enhances light absorption: tropical plants
- Organisms capture radiation: black fungus
- Nest maximizes solar heat absorption: wood ants
- Collective body heat warms nest: wood ants
- Structures maximize light absorption: plants
- Pigment cells absorb incidental light: insects
- Leaves optimize internal state: mangrove
- Crystals draw sunlight into plant: window plants
- Tendons store energy: bushbaby
- Leaves optimize photosynthesis: giant water-lily
- Creating energy from sunlight: plants
- Surviving low nutrient, low light conditions: peatland plants
- Transparent patches of mantle focus light: giant clam
- Secretions break down algal walls: stony corals
- Optimizing exposure to sunlight: stony corals
- Epiphytes capture nutrients: bromeliads
- Photosynthesis in low-light conditions: Taeniophyllum orchid
- Skeletal construction provides shock absorption: cats
- Surviving extended confinement: lungfish
- Managing irregular food supplies: crossbills
- Relationship provides nutrients, housing, protection: bull horn acacia and acacia ants
- Herd finds fresh food: wildebeests
- Leaves focus light: begonias
- Ribbon-like roots absorb moisture: Taeniophyllum orchid
- Mutant gene flattens leaves: snapdragon
- Iridescent thin layer provides photoprotection: understory rainforest plants
- Leading edge of seed creates vortex lift: maple
- Tentacles help filter food: burrowing sea cucumber
- Light-gathering apparatus adjusts to conditions: purple bacteria
- Pelt is adapted for thermoregulation: numbat
- Blades balance light interception, drag: bull kelp
- Blubber absorbs heat: bottlenose dolphin
- Leaf fan optimizes cooling and wind resistance: fan palm tree
- Leaves alter shape to optimize light: olive tree
- Symbiotic algae provide photosynthetic products: spotted salamander
- Antenna structure efficiently gathers light: vascular plants
- Chromophores protect from harmful UV: dwarf mountain pine
- Fluorophores enhance photosynthesis: dwarf mountain pine
- Spicules transport light: sponges
- Leaf traits and functions adapt to demands of local niche: plants
- Micro-compartment converts carbon dioxide: cyanobacteria
- Carbonic anhydrases catalyze conversion of carbon dioxide: mammals
- Photovoltaic pigments aid biomineralization: Oriental hornet
