Biology, asked by suryansh20032001, 9 months ago

why is the destarched leaf immersed in alcohol and alcohol and boiled in the experiment for testing the necessity of chlorophyll for photosyntheis

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Answered by aakidmodan
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This makes it possible to extract the chlorophyll with hot ethanol and also allows the iodine solution to penetrate the cells and react with any starchpresent.In your experiment, you took a leaf that had been allowed to do photosynthesis, youboiled it to kill it and remove the waxy cuticle, then placed it in alcohol

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