Abstract Duckweed is a small aquatic plant that is able to grow rapidly‚ making it the ideal specimen for our experiment. It is hypothesized that altering the amount of light received by duckweed will alter its photosynthetic rate. It is predicted that a lower light intensity will lower the rate of growth in duckweed. Two treatment groups were covered with a screen in order to reduce light intensity. Both groups were kept under a controlled light source for fourteen days and plant counts were
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Iran. J. Environ. Health. Sci. Eng.‚ 2010‚ Vol. 7‚ No. 2‚ pp. 299-306 GROWTH‚ PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND RESPIRATORY RESPONSE TO COPPER IN LEMNA MINOR: A POTENTIAL USE OF DUCKWEED IN BIOMONITORING Downloaded from http://journals.tums.ac.ir/ on Thursday‚ February 23‚ 2012 * N. Khellaf‚ M. Zerdaoui Laboratory of Environmental Engineering‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ Badji Mokhtar University‚ Annaba‚ Algeria Received 3 February 2010; revised 21 Jully 2010; accepted 20 August 2010 ABSTRACT Aquatic macrophytes
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The Effects of Light Intensity on the Rate of Photosynthesis Aim: To investigate the effects of light intensity on photosynthesis. Background: Photosynthesis is a process that plants undergo to produce glucose. The plant then uses the glucose to produce energy which the plant needs to sustain life. The chemical formula for photosynthesis is: Sunlight 6CO2 +6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2 Chlorophyll The plant requires light‚ carbon dioxide and
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The Effect of Light Intensity The effect of different light wavelengths was tested in the following experiment. The rate of photosynthesis can be affected depending on the light treatment it receives. With the aid of DPIP acting as NADPH in photosynthesis‚ it was possible to observe the reaction as it took place. Samples were created with dark‚ 24 cm‚ 30 cm‚ and 49 cm light treatments. The absorbance was measured in five-minute intervals for each sample and recorded in an appropriate table
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Investigation of the effect of light intensity Equipment: * Data loga * Light sensor * Bulb * Metre ruler X3 Variables: Independent variable – distance of the light sensor from the light source (m) Dependant variable – intensity of light (lux) Control | Why it needs to be controlled? | How will you control it? | Bulb | There are different watts in different bulbs | Use the same bulb‚ but if your one does break half way through the experiment you can use another bulb with the
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• Duckweed (Lemna minor) is a member of the Lemnaceae family (Monette et al. 2006) it is a small plant that floats on the surface of still or stagnant water that is usually rich in nutrients (Keddy 2010). It was seen that Duckweed thrived in areas of high nutrient content‚ high sunlight and warmer temperatures (Taylor 2011) .It was also seen that fertilisers contained nutrients‚ such as nitrates‚ which greatly influences duckweed growth. Duckweed is also used for feed for farm animal‚ such as ducks
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Biology lab: measuring the effect of light intensity on plant growth Aim: Investigate the effect of light intensity on plant growth Hypothesis: Light intensity will have an effect on plant growth. With an increase in light intensity there will be plant growth at a faster rate in comparison to when the light intensity is low where plant growth is limited and will take place slowly. When there’s too much light intensity‚ the light intensity will no longer become a limiting factor. A limiting
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Plan I plan to investigate how light intensity affects the rate of photosynthesis in pondweed. The rate of photosynthesis will be measured by the number of bubbles given off (considering that oxygen is produced as a waste gas during photosynthesis). The light intensity is measured by the distance between the lamp and pondweed. Fair test: Fix: the amount of pondweed‚ the amount of water and sodium hydrogen carbonate solution in the test tube‚ the time allowed for each experiment Change: the
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out how light intensity can affect the rate of photosynthesis. Hypothesis I think that the further away the light source is the smaller the rate of photosynthesis is. This is because there is a further distance for the light to each the plant in order for it to photosynthesise. Although the closer the light source is‚ the more photosynthesis‚ the light source could also kill or damage the Elodea (type of pondweed) because it could become too hot and denature its cells. But because light intensity
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Duckweed 1.Taxanomy (Wikipedia) Kingdom: Plantae Order: Alismateles Family: Araceae Sub family : lemnoidae ( 2. habitat What? Duckweed is a stemless aquatic flowering plant . Lemencenae is a small free floating plant that grows on water surface.(clean flo) Where? Being a large populated plant duckweed is knownto be found all over the world.The most common places/sites to find duckweed are in ponds . They may also be found in fringesof lakesand in backwaters and some sloughs that are
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