TRANSPIRATION DESIGN LAB Transpiration is the process through which water is lost from a plant. Water is taken into a plant through roots and root hairs by osmosis‚ and it exits the plant through stomata. Transpiration helps the diffusion of both O2 and CO2 plus it helps the movement of water throughout the plant. There are some factors that affect the rate of transpiration of the plant. Those factors are mainly humidity‚ soil water supply‚ sunlight‚ temperature and wind. Any alteration
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Go to the following website for completion: http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/BL_10/BL_10.html Name _______________ Title: Plant Transpiration Question: What factor affects the transpiration rate in plants? | Normal | With Fan | With Heater | With Lamp | Arrowhead | 3.6 | 7.5 | 6.6 | 4.0 | Coleus | 0.9 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 3.0 | Devil’s Ivy | 2.9 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.0 | Dieffenbachia | 4.1 | 7.7 | 6.0 | 3.9 | English Ivy | 1.8 | 5.1 | 3.2 | 2.1 | Geranium | 1.2 | 4.7 | 5.8
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Transpiration Formal Lab Report By Jessica Tran Introduction When water is transported from the roots to the mesophyll cells in the leaves‚ it is evaporates out the stomates‚ called transpiration‚ to create a lower osmotic potential. Osmotic potential is the part of the water potential of a tissue that results from the presence of solute particles. Even though the stomates open to release water‚ it also brings in carbon dioxide to produce sugar and oxygen through a process of photosynthesis
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LAB REPORT HYPOTHESIS 1: Plants transpire the most when the environment has light and less humidity JUSTIFICATION: Water evaporates more readily because light stimulates the opening of the stomata and photosynthesis would occur. HYPOTHESIS 2: Transpiration would occur the second most when there’s light and lots of humidity. JUSTIFICATION: The light would allow photosynthesis to occur and the stomata to open but little if any diffusion of water out the leaf would occur. HYPOTHESIS 3:
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Transpiration Lab Write-up. Introduction Transpiration is the evaporation of water from plants. It’s not simply a hazard of plant life but it’s the engine that pulls water from the roots to cool the leaf and supply photosynthesis. The concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere is lower than that in the leaf. Because of this difference‚ water vapor diffuses from the spaces of the leaf‚ through the stomata in the epidermis. Stomata are in the lower epidermis; the lower surface receives less
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Lab 4: Plant Transpiration Project By Shelby Hyde Lab 030 Date Due: March 12‚ 2013 The Effect of Wind on the Rate of Transpiration Introduction: Transpiration is the process through which water is evaporated from plants. This serves many purposes‚ including thermoregulation and the diffusion of CO2‚ but most importantly creates a water potential difference which causes the mass flow of water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves of the plant. Transpiration is accomplished through structures
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Lab Report Practical 10 Transpiration Date: 05.02.2014 Tutorial group: F Name: Aimukambetov Sanatzhan Lab partner: Aibekova Lazzat Measuring rate of water uptake by plant Introduction Transpiration is the one of the important processes in the plant where the water movement through a plant takes place and after evaporates mostly from leaves (also from stems and from flowers). In other words‚ transpiration is one of the most important mechanisms in plants which affect and support the flow
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Prof. Marilyn Combalicer Exercise 3 TRANSPIRATION I. Result and Discussion 1. Effect of the Environment Factors on the Rate of Transpiration The quantitative rate of transpiration of the branch of papua dilaw was determined using the potometer. The distance travelled by the bubble in the capillary per unit of time was observed under different treatments: a. in front of a fan‚ b. exposed to light‚ c. fan and light‚ d. no treatment. Table 1. The transpiration rate of the branch of papua dilaw when
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Nicolette Lindberg 11/30/12 IB Biology 2‚ Period 1 Transpiration Lab Background Information- Transpiration is the loss of water from a plant. Plants transpire water out of the stomata in their leaves at a different rate in every environment. The amount of transpiration is affected by the environment‚ how developed the plant is to not lose as much water‚ the surface area of the leaves‚ and how affected the plant is by its environment (Von Bargen). For this experiment‚ the plant we used was (Viola
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Transpiration is the evaporation of water from the aerial parts of plants‚ especially leaves but also stems‚ flowers and roots. Leaf surfaces are dotted with openings called stomates that are bordered by guard cells. Collectively‚ the structures are called stomata.[1] Leaf transpiration occurs through stomata‚ and can be as a necessary "cost" associated with many processes such as the opening of the pistil and allowing the diffusion of carbon dioxide gas from the air for photosynthesis. Transpiration
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