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To know more about respiration in plants we should perform the
following activities.
Activity-3
Activity
Take a handful of moong or Bengalgram seeds.
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Soak the seeds in water a day before to perform your
experiment. Keep these soaked seeds in a cloth pouch sprouted seeds
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and tie with a string tightly. Keep the cloth pouch in a
corner of your class room. Next day collect the sprouts/
germinated seeds from the pouch, keep it in a glass beaker with
lime water
bottle/plastic bottle(around 200 ml capacity). Take a fig-17: Evolved CO2 in respiration
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small beaker, fill three fourth with lime water. Insert it in the beaker
carefully. Close the plastic bottle tightly. Make a similar set with
unsprouted seeds. Keep this set undisturbed for one or two days. During
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this time observe the colour of lime water in both the sets. In which set
does the colour change faster? Why?
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Activity-4
Take sprouts which were prepared for above activity
thermometer
in a thermosflask. Remove the lid and prepare a cork
(with thermocol, or rubber or any other material) through
which you can bore a hole to insert a thermometer. Take
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care that the bulb of the thermometer should dip in the
sprouts. Close the flask with this tight fitting cork. Record
the temperature for every two hours. You are advised to
Thermosflask
do this for at least 24 hours.
Make a graph by using your observations.
Is there any increase in temperature?
germinating seeds
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abruptly increase at a time of the day?
Where does the heat come from?
fig-18: Heat evolved during
respiration Photosynthesis versus Respiration
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Plants carry out photosynthesis, which means that they produce their
own food from atmospheric CO2 using light energy from the sun. This
process is a complex series of steps involving the conversion of light
energy into chemical energy, which is then used to synthesize sugars from
carbon dioxide. This is a process of synthesis or an anabolic process which
occurs in the chloroplasts.
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The equation below summarizes the photosynthetic process
Light energy
CO2+ H2O (CH2O) n+ O2
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Chlorophyll Sugar
After balancing the equation
Light energy
6CO2+ 12H2O C6H12O6 + 6H2O + 6O2
Chlorophyll Sugar
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Once produced, the sugars can then be used for the process of
respiration to provide energy to run all life processes.
Respiration as we know is not just the exchange of gases. It is the
process of breakdown of complex food molecules or a catabolic process
to produce chemical or potential energy.
This can be summarized by the equation
(CH2O)n+ O2 CO2+ H2O + Energy
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C6H12O6 + 6O2 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy
Photosynthesis and respiration appear to be opposing reactions, but