Photosynthesis | Design Your Own Experiment
Design Your Own Experiment
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Photosynthesis is essential for a plant's survival and growth. Air, water, light, nutrients, and temperature are crucial elements that play a part in photosynthesis. You can select from the elements needed for photosynthesis to conduct an experiment. For example: temperature affects the function of the pigments responsible for photosynthesis. You can experiment to determine at what temperature photosynthesis stops in trees, that is, when they go into dormancy.
Check the For More Information section and talk with your science teacher or school or community media specialist to start gathering information on photosynthesis questions that interest you. As you consider possible experiments, be sure to discuss them with your science teacher or another knowledgeable adult before trying them. Some of them might be dangerous.
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