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Lesson: Chapter 2 — Photosynthesis

Is chlorophyll needed? 1 of 4

Question 1

Why must the pattern of a variegated leaf be drawn before the starch test?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Because boiling in alcohol removes the chlorophyll, so afterwards you cannot tell which parts were green. The drawing is the record of the leaf before the test.

The starch test destroys the very thing the experiment is about. Without the drawing, the result afterwards means nothing.

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