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Question
The figure below represents an experiment set up to study a physiological process in plants:
(i) Name the physiological process being studied.
(ii) Explain the process.
(iii) What is the aim of the experiment?
(iv) Give a well-balanced equation to represent the process.
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Solution
(i) Photosynthesis.
(ii) It is the process in which green plants manufacture food from carbon dioxide and water, in the presence of sunlight.
(iii) To show that oxygen is given out during photosynthesis.
(iv) \[\ce{6CO2 + 12H2O->[Light][Chlorophy]C6H12O6 + 6H2O + 6O2}\]
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