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प्रश्न
Short answer question.
What is the source of energy for photosynthesis?
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उत्तर
Light is the ultimate source of energy in photosynthesis because plants take in the sunlight CO2 and H2O and convert it into glucose.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
State the main function of the Lenticels
Put a tick (✓ ) against the most appropriate alternative in the following statement.
Stomata are present on the surface of:
Describe an experiment to prove that sunlight is necessary for photosynthesis.
A potted destarched plant was taken in order to prove that light is necessary for photosynthesis.
(i) What is meant by 'destarched plant'? How can it be destarched?
(ii) Using the destarched plant describe step by step how you would proceed to prove that in the absence of light the leaf cannot manufacture starch.
What is meant by a destarched plant? How can it be destarched?
A candidate in order to study the importance of certain factors in photosynthesis took a potted plant and kept it in the dark for over 24 hours. Then in the early hours of the morning, she covered one of the leaves with black paper in the center only. She placed the potted plant in the sunlight for a few hours, and then tested the leaf which was covered with black paper for starch.
- What aspect of photosynthesis was being investigated?
- Is there any control in this experiment? If so, state the same.
- Why was the plant kept in the dark before the experiment?
- Describe step by step how the candidate proceeded to test the leaf for the presence of starch.
Name the following:
The chemical substance used to test the presence of starch in the cell of a leaf.
The gas given out during photosynthesis is _____.
How does the light-dependent reaction differ from the light-independent reaction? What are the end product and reactants in each? Where does each reaction occur within the chloroplast?
The reactions of photosynthesis make up a biochemical pathway.
Explain how the biochemical pathway of photosynthesis recycles many of its own reactions and identify the recycled reactants.
