Experiment - II: To show that light is necessary for photosynthesis Apparatus Awell-watered, potted plant (previously destarched). Ablack strip of paper. Method The apparatus is set up as shown and js placed in bright light for a few hours starch after the black paper is removed. black paper a No blue black colou ce Cc” black colour (control) The leaf is then tested for white oar sreen area of leaf Alter Figure 4.6 Results Where the black strip covered the leaf, the leaf stains brown. The rest of the leaf stains blue/black. show that carbon dioxide is necessary for photosynthesis Experiment - | Apparatus Two well-watered, potted plants (previously destarched). Alarge piece of flat glass. A polythene bag to fit over one of the pots. Two bell jars. A small beaker containing concentrated sodium hydroxide. Petroleum jelly (Vaseline) sunlight for ‘Shours tightly iting cork to prevent entry of « “ bell jar open il jars polythene bag. tied over pot vaseline to sea bel plants Jar onto glass pate sodium Diagram i Diagram | bryos . Figure 4.7 Diagram | lacks CO, while diagram II provides CO, In diagram |, the pot is coveted to prevent CO, from the soil from entering the bell jar. Sodium hydroxide present to absorb CO, Diagram Il is the control where the plant gets CO, r Scanned with The two plants are left side-by-side in sunlight. After about eight hours, a leaf Pakandegte east plan! 2°" jaa for the presence of starch.