Advertisements
Advertisements
प्रश्न
Name the following:
The process by which plants produce their food.
Advertisements
उत्तर
Photosynthesis
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
Fig. demonstrates a physiological process taking place in green plants. The whole set-up was placed in bright sunlight for several hours. Study the diagram and answer the questions that follow:

- What aspect of the physiological process is being examined?
- Explain the physiological process mentioned in (a) above.
- Label the parts numbered 1 and 2 in the diagram.
- Write a well-balanced chemical equation for the physiological process explained in (b) above.
- What would happen to the rate of bubbling of the gas if a pinch of sodium bicarbonate is added to the water in the beaker? Explain your answer.
the exact location of the Thylakoids
The figure given below represents an experimental setup with a weighing machine to demonstrate a particular process in plants. The experimental setup was placed in bright sunlight. Study the diagram and answer the following questions:

(i) Name the process intended for study.
(ii) Define the above mentioned process.
(iii) When the weight of the test tube (A & B) is taken before and after the experiment, what is observed? Give reasons to justify your observation in A & B.
(iv) What is the purpose of keeping the test tube B in the experimental setup?
Give suitable biological reasons for the following statement :
All life on Earth is supported by Photosynthesis.
Fill in the blank:
Xanthophyll is ______ coloured pigment.
Name the molecules which are called assimilatory power? Why are they called so?
Explain the Term Calvin Cycle.
Give technical term:
Which process is the ultimate source of energy for all living organisms?
Write the functional activity of the following structure:
Thylakoids
Higher Order Thinking Skill.
Imagine that student A studied the importance of certain factors in photosynthesis. He took a potted plant and kept it in dark for 24 hours. In the early hours of the next morning, he covered one of the leaves with dark paper in the centre only. Then he placed the plant in sunlight for a few hours and tested the leaf which was covered with black paper for starch.
- What aspect of photosynthesis was being investigated?
- Why was the plant kept in the dark before the experiment?
- How will you prove that starch is present in the leaves?
- Name the raw materials needed for photosynthesis.
