lLght Intensity and Photosynthesis
An experiment to show how light intensity effects rate of photosynthesis.
The aim of my experiment was to determine whether intensity of light would affect the rate of photosynthesis in a plant. To do this, I placed a piece of Canadian pondweed in varying light intensities, and observed the amount of oxygen being given off. I used Canadian pondweed because of its unusual quality of giving off bubbles of gas from a cut end, when …
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…minute. Move the bubbles, which have been collected at the bend in the tubing to the part of the tube with a scale. Find the length of the bubble collected. Repeat for all other readings, and then repeat all readings a second time to get an average result for each distance. Audus apparatus using the described method, I found the following results:
Results
Distance Light (Lux) Length1 Length2 Av length
(cm) Intensity (mm) (mm) (mm)
5 1015 3.5 3.5 3.5
10 945 3.5 3.5 3.5
12 770 4 3 3.5
14 639 3.5 3.5 3.5
16 500 3 3.5 3.25
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