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How does sunlight affect the growth of plant?

Plants need sunlight. Houseplants lean toward the Sun, and if they do not get enough light they wither and die. Plants use sunlight to make their food. This process is called photosynthesis.

1.Without the use of sunlight carbohydrates cannot be formed, thus, the reaction would not be complete and there would be no food for the plant. 2. With the absence of one main ingredient (sunlight) photosynthesis cannot takes place. There would be no sunlight that will shines on the leaf, there would be no more inside the chloroplasts to be soaked up.

3. With the absence of sunlight plants cannot grow healthy.

4. Without the enough sunlight plants mat wither and die.

Trial & error.


We are going to have two different set-ups. Plant A would be place inside a box,with the absence of sunlight. Plant B would be place outside the house with sufficient amount of sunlight. After a week we observed the effect of sunlight the growth and development of the plants.

Plant A, which is place inside the pot wither and die. Due to the absence of the sunlight Photosynthesis never takes place. Because as photosynthesis means,putting things together using light,

While Plant B, with sufficient amount of sunlight grow healthy because the reaction takes place between a gases in air called carbon dioxide and hydrogen, a part of water. Sunlight causes these two to combine and make new chemicals called carbohydrates.

Therefore, it only proves that sunlight has a great effect in the reaction taking place inside the chloroplast. And without sunlight plants cant live nor grow to the fullest.

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