Question

The teacher instructed a student to place a healthy potted plant in a dark room for 24 hours prior to an experiment on photosynthesis. The purpose of placing it in a dark room is:

Answer 1

because she want to see the presence of chllorophyl in the potted plant that is why she said to keep this plant in the dark room and there the plant can not make there food at that time

Answer 2

The purpose of placing it in a dark room is to destarch the leaves, this process is called destarching, done before proceeding any experiment on photosynthesis.