BUT , one of the plants is put in a bell jar with a small petri dish of soda lime. In this particular experiment, a de-starched plant is covered using a transparent plastic bag or a glass jar. It can be used when sunlight is low e. The light from the laboratory itself will contribute, but the total light should be constant. There are several aquatic plants you can use, the most popular seems to Canadian pondweed elodea canadensis , but this is regarded as an invasive species, so perhaps some other oxygenated aquatic plant should be used!

Collect leaves from the same plant. I’ve seen this sort of set-up in textbooks and on the internet and it seems ok in principle, but I have doubts about its use in practice? Varying the light intensity is quite difficult, you need to position a lamp at different measured distances away from the pondweed tube. The relationship between the two is directly proportional. When the concentration had been raised above a certain level, increasing the rate further would have no effect as there would be other limiting factors limiting the rate of the reaction. The almost white leaf is rinsed with cold water and laid out on a filter paper.

In this particular experiment, a de-starched plant is covered using a transparent plastic bag or a glass jar. Use Cabomba or Elodeawhich are sold in aquarium shops.

Only those areas of the leaf with chlorophyll photosynthesise.

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The primary observation made in this photoaynthesis is watching the discs floating in the solution. Scientists can use sodium hydroxide to absorb carbon dioxide from the air so that it is unavailable for the plants to use in photosynthesis. In cold weather, heaters might be employed in a greenhouse because the temperature may be too low for efficient photosynthesis for plant growth – but heaters increase cost of production. A green cellophane is used to cover the light.

Graphs of experimental data and their interpretation. Skip to main content. If a plant tried to store the soluble glucose, the cells would absorb water by osmosis, swell up and burst!

Effect of Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate Concentration on the Rate of Photosynthesis

Glucose can be converted into starch that can be stored in roots e. While in the vacuum, swirl the solutions so that the discs are suspendend. Note yhdrogen to produce proteins, plants also use nitrate ions that are absorbed from the soil. You can use from 0. To show that light is needed for photosynthesis From your stock of ‘de-starched’ photosynnthesis, you keep one in the dark and one into bright sunlight or artificial light. Palisade cells in the mesophyll contains lots of chloroplasts containing chlorophyll – so palisade cells are well adapted for photosynthesis.

The general points about investigating the three variables were described in method 1.

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The graph also shows that the relationship between rate of photosynthesis and lamp distance is not linear. Use the syringe to add sodium bicarbonate solution into leaf discs. However, eventually the rate levels off to become constant due to limitation of the carbon dioxide concentration too low or the temperature too low and any increase in light intensity has no further effect on the rate of photosynthesis for plant growth.

Seven graphs have already been fully described on this page.

The accuracy of this experiment is limited by a number of factors, such as the oxygen give off is used for respiration by the plant or some of the oxygen dissolved into the water.

This energy is used by converting carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil into sugars e.

The green pigment chlorophyll is in the subcellular yydrogen called chloroplastswhere photosynthesis takes place in green plant cells. The energy built up in a plant’s or algal organism’s biomass enters the food chain so animals can now feed on it herbivores and themselves be fed on by other animals carnivores.

Preparation of plants and set-up You can do simple experiments with a small plants in plant pots, if necessary keep them enclosed in a bell jar. The spongy mesophyll tissue also contains air spaces that help increase the rate of diffusion hydroten gases in and out of the leaves.

The lower epidermis contains lots of stomata pores which let carbon dioxide directly diffuse into the leaf for photosynthesis. Photosynthedis photosynthesis light energy is absorbed by the green chlorophyll, which is found in chloroplasts in some plant cells and algae.

AND its not just life on land, all aquatic life e. If possibleplease help me design an experiment to test this given the the following materials: Glucose is used to make cellulosewhich makes up and strengthens the cell walls eg of the xylem and phloem and is particularly needed in larger quantities in rapidly growing plants. The volume of oxygen produced could be measured by collecting the gas produced in a gas syringe.

Amino acids are first synthesised from glucose and nitrate ions absorbed from soil through the roots and converted to proteins for tissue cell growth and repair.

So, three factors affecting the rate of photosynthesis that can be investigated in the laboratory – see 7 graphs later! The tube of pondweed is immersed in NaHCO 3 solution is subjected to a lamp emitting bright white light at a specific distance from tube of pondweed. The concentration of NaHCO 3 and the light intensity should be both kept constant.