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Introduction
All living organisms need to take many different substances into their
bodies.
Taking in useful substances is called feeding, or nutrition.
Animals cannot make their own food. They depend on others for their
food.
Green plants make their own food by the process of photosynthesis.
Photosynthesis as the fundamental process by which plants
manufacture carbohydrates from raw materials using energy from
light.
Photosynthesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pD68uxRLkM
Green plants make the carbohydrate glucose from carbon dioxide and
water. At the same time, oxygen is produced. Green plants use the
energy of sunlight for this.
Increasing the light intensity increases the energy available to the plant for
photosynthesis.
The effect of increasing light intensity on the rate of photosynthesis
Intake of carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide diffuses in for photosynthesis through stomata of a leaf.
Stomata are small pores (holes) in the epidermis that allow gases to diffuses
into and out of the leaf.
Stomata are usually in the lower epidermis, but some plants like water lilies
have them in the upper epidermis.
Oxygen made in photosynthesis diffuses out.
Stomata are opened and closed by guard cells.
Water passes into the guard cells by osmosis. This makes them bend so the
stomata opens.
At night the stomata close. Water passes out of the guard cells by osmosis
and they straighten and move closer together so closing the stomata pores.
The stomata also close in hot, dry weather to help prevent the plant wilting.
Open stoma and closed stoma
Intake of water
Xylem is the tissue of vascular plants that transports water and nutrients from
the soil to the stems and leaves.
The xylem vessels are long thin tubes with no cell contents when mature.
They have thickened cell walls, impregnated with a material called lignin,
which can form distinct patterns in the vessel walls.
Cross section of Dicot leaf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co0JdqUlycg
Cuticle - waterproof layer that also cuts down the water lost by evaporation.
Secreted by cells of upper epidermis.
Upper epidermis - single layer of cells with no chloroplasts. Thin and
transparent (allows light to pass through). Acts as a barrier.
Palisade mesophyll - the palisade cells contain lots of chloroplasts. Most
photosynthesis occurs here. Receive CO2 by diffusion from air spaces in the
spongy mesophyll.
Spongy mesophyll - more rounded cells with lots of air spaces between them.
Xylem vessels - bring water and ions to the leaf
Phloem tubes - carry sugar & other organic nutrients made by plant from the
leaves to the rest of the plant.
Lower epidermis - act as a protective layer. Stomata are present to regulate
the loss of water vapour (transpiration). Site of gaseous exchange into and
out of the leaf.
Stomata - each stomata is surrounded by a pair of guard cells. Guard cells-
control whether the stoma is open or closed. Water vapour passes out during
transpiration. CO2 diffuses in and O2 diffuses out during photosynthesis.
Plant nutrients
Nutrients are needed for healthy growth of plants. They are used for a variety
of purposes in plants.
If these nutrients are lacking in the soil then plants do not grow well and show
certain symptoms known as deficiency symptoms.
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Questions
Questions
1. Why was the plant destarched before the beginning of the experiment?
2. Why was part of the leaf left uncovered?
3. What do your results tell you about light and photosynthesis?
To see if chlorophyll is needed for photosynthesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x17XhQJ3PxI