Question

rohit places a potted plant in room in complete darkness after 3 days, he takes out the plant and test the leaf for the presence of starch. will he get positive starch test?give reason for the same.

Answer 1

no he will not get positive reasults because keeping in darkness starch will go of from the plant (de starchation) only in the presencevof light the plant will get becase light is a basic need for photosynthesis