Effect of Sodium Bicarbonate on Photosynthesis
Introduction
Photosynthesis forms carbon dioxide into oxygen, making it an essential for life. (2) The purpose of doing this lab was to find out how sodium bicarbonate concentrations effected the rate of photosynthesis. (1) In photosynthesis, CO2 (carbon dioxide) is a reactant. CO2 is also produced by sodium bicarbonate. (3) This makes the addition of sodium bicarbonate to prompt the process of photosynthesis. This should cause the reaction to occur faster, hypothesizing that the more sodium bicarbonate the increase of photosynthesis.
Results
Table 1.
This table shows the amount of spinach disks that are floating during a duration of 40 minutes every 10 minutes.
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Figure 1. The Effect of Sodium Bicarbonate on the Process of Photosynthesis
This figure shows the effect that the different concentrations of sodium bicarbonate had on the process of photosynthesis. These are all the trials together. The grey line represents 0.2% of NaHCO3, the red line represents 0.1% of NaHCO3, the yellow line represents the covered, the light blue line represents 0.05% of NaHCO3, and the dark blue line represents just water. The cup that received 0.2% NaHCO3 reacted much faster than others. The increased amount of NaCHO3, the increased amount of floating disks. The more concentrated amount of NaHCO3 produced the most floating spinach disks. The cup that received no NaHCO3 produced no floating disk. The covered cup only received two floating disks. This shows photosynthesis happens more rapidly with light energy and NaHCO3.
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When photosynthesis is occurring oxygen is being released, making the spinach disk float. The cups containing NaHCO3 had more floating disks than the others that did not. The negative controls, the covered cup and the pure water cup, did not have near as many floating spinach disk as the ones with NaHCO3. This happens because light energy is required during photosynthesis, and NaHCO3 cause photosynthesis to happen more
Introduction
Photosynthesis forms carbon dioxide into oxygen, making it an essential for life. (2) The purpose of doing this lab was to find out how sodium bicarbonate concentrations effected the rate of photosynthesis. (1) In photosynthesis, CO2 (carbon dioxide) is a reactant. CO2 is also produced by sodium bicarbonate. (3) This makes the addition of sodium bicarbonate to prompt the process of photosynthesis. This should cause the reaction to occur faster, hypothesizing that the more sodium bicarbonate the increase of photosynthesis.
Results
Table 1.
This table shows the amount of spinach disks that are floating during a duration of 40 minutes every 10 minutes.
Time
0 minutes
10 minutes
20 …show more content…
Figure 1. The Effect of Sodium Bicarbonate on the Process of Photosynthesis
This figure shows the effect that the different concentrations of sodium bicarbonate had on the process of photosynthesis. These are all the trials together. The grey line represents 0.2% of NaHCO3, the red line represents 0.1% of NaHCO3, the yellow line represents the covered, the light blue line represents 0.05% of NaHCO3, and the dark blue line represents just water. The cup that received 0.2% NaHCO3 reacted much faster than others. The increased amount of NaCHO3, the increased amount of floating disks. The more concentrated amount of NaHCO3 produced the most floating spinach disks. The cup that received no NaHCO3 produced no floating disk. The covered cup only received two floating disks. This shows photosynthesis happens more rapidly with light energy and NaHCO3.
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When photosynthesis is occurring oxygen is being released, making the spinach disk float. The cups containing NaHCO3 had more floating disks than the others that did not. The negative controls, the covered cup and the pure water cup, did not have near as many floating spinach disk as the ones with NaHCO3. This happens because light energy is required during photosynthesis, and NaHCO3 cause photosynthesis to happen more