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PHOTOBIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS

1. INTRODUCTION

As a young boy I was forced to swallow a spoonful of cod liver oil every day. I was told that it contained vitamin D and that I had to eat it to get good bones in my body. I did not wonder why it was in the cod and how it got there. In fact I did not started to ask such questions until a few years ago. For some of the questions I have so far found no good answers. I learnt some surprising things, for instance that vitamin D is not really a vitamin in the strict sense, and that the cod can hardly make any of it at all.

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