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Investigation into the factors that affect the rate of photosynthesis in Elodea
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Investigation into the factors that affect the rate of photosynthesis in Elodea Introduction Photosynthesis is the chemical process, which takes place in every green plant to produce food in the form of glucose. Plants use the suns energy to join together water and carbon molecules to make the glucose, which is sent around the plant to provide food. Cells in the root or stem can use the glucose to make energy, if the plant does not need to use all the glucose immediately then it is stored which is difficult because glucose is hard to store in water. Plants solve this problem by joining hundreds of glucose molecules together to make starch. Starch does not dissolve in water very well so it makes a better food store. Photosynthesis takes place mainly in leaves and depends on an important green pigment called chlorophyll, which is found in chloroplasts. To obtain the most...
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