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Why is it necessary to destarch a plant before performing any experiment on photosynthesis?

It is important to destarch a plant before performing any experiment on photosynthesis so that it can be established whether or not a particular factor (carbon dioxide/ light/ water) is important for the photosynthetic reaction. Incase, the starch is already present in the leaves, it may lead to an erroneous interpretation.


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