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Detection implies consciousness, which photosynthetic organisms don't have. Everything that they do is an automatic process, built in to their biochemistry, rather than being a decision based upon something that they have observed. In the case of plants that grow toward the light, that has to do with growth hormone in strategic locations, which alters the way the plant grows. The plant does not actually know where to secrete the growth hormone, that is just an automatic response to certain envrionmental conditions. In the case of growing in an upward direction, that is easy, the growth hormone just sinks downward under the influence of gravity. The lowest part of the plant then grows the fastest, causing the plant to turn upward. And for plants whose leaves angle toward the sunlight, you just need a hormone secretion where the rate of photosynthesis is lower.

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