The Leaves are green

The Leaves are green

Photosynthesis is the process of making food (glucose) in green plants using carbon dioxide and water as raw materials in the presence of sunlight and chlorophyll. What would you infer to be the cause of the green color?

Apparatus and Materials:

1. a beaker big

2. a beaker small

3. a wire netting

4. a Bunsen

5. a support

6. alcohol

7. water

8. leaf

9. a clips

10. Iodine

What to do:

1. Boil the leaf for 5 minutes

2. Rinse the leaf in water

3. Boil the leaf in alcohol

4. Rinse the leaf in water

5. Dry the leaf with a paper

6. Then the leaf dropped with the Iodine’s

Analyze:

1. What happen after the leaf of boiled in water?

2. What happen after the leaf of boiled in alcohol?

What happen after the leaf of dropped with Iodine’s? Why?