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प्रश्न
What is meant by a destarched plant? How can it be destarched?
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उत्तर
A destarched plant has no starch present in the leaves and a leaf remains yellowish-brown when tested with iodine during a starch test.
A plant can be destarched by keeping it in the dark for two or three days so that the leaves are free from stored starch.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Phosphate, RNA, Sugar, Nitrogenous base
Put a tick (✓ ) against the most appropriate alternative in the following statement.
Carbohydrates are stored by plants in the form of:
(i) Fill in the blanks in the following equations of two chemical reactions:
(a) \[\ce{---+12H2O->[Light energy]C6H12O6 + --- + ----}\]
(b) \[\ce{--- 6O2->[Chlorophyll] 6 --- +6 ---- + Energy}\]
(ii) Name the two processes represented by the above two reactions.
(iii) State any two differences in these processes other than those already indicated in the reactions.
(iv) Which one of these two reactions is the supporter of all life on earth?
Using the destarched plant describe step by step how would you proceed to prove that in the absence of light the leaf cannot manufacture starch?
Write the reaction for photosynthesis?
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?
______ food is made in their green stems.
Can the stem of a plant be compared with a street with two-way traffic? Give reason.
Name two raw materials for photosynthesis.
Write the exact location of palisade cells.
