Question

Before carrying out the experiment,azman kept both plants in a dark cupboard for 24hours.what is the purpose of this step?

Answer 1

To do an experiments on any factors like Co2, Sunlight, chlorophyll the plant will be kept in a dark room or cup board for 48 hours to eliminate the starch from the leaves of the plant, which was previously formed through photosynthesis. This step is known as destarching. After destarching if we conduct an experiment for a particular factor on this plant, we can easily know how that particular factor influencing the formation of starch in the leaves.

Answer 2

Plants were kept in dark cupboard to eliminate the starch from the leaves of the plant, which was previously formed through photosynthesis.