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either doubled to even tripled when the baking soda is added. This tells me that oxygen will be doubled. Procedure:
1. Measure and cut at an angle elodea 7 to 9 cm. 2. Remove a few leaves from end of stem and slightly crush end of stem. 3. Measure mass in grams and record. 4. Put elodea stem side up in a test tube. 5. Fill test tube with water and baking soda solution (1 gram to 100 mL of water). 6. Put tube in rack and adjust lamp with blue light 5 cm from top of test tube. 7. Turn on lamp and wait 1 minute. 8. After 1 minute, begin counting small, medium and large bubbles for 3 minutes. Record data. 9. Repeat with.5 grams and 100mL of water. 10. Repeat for Trial 2 Data/Observations:
Trial 1 ___grams
Small x 1 CO2 1 gram .5 gram 42x1 31x1
Notes:
Trial 2 _____grams
AVERAGES: Small x1
CO2
Medium x2 42 33
Large x3
Total
1 gram .5g
68.5 51
28.5 24
139 108
108
139
56 44.1
0.5g 1g
Conclusion: In this lab, we were testing if the amount of oxygen produced through photosynthesis by elodea would double if we doubled the amount of carbon dioxide we added. All in all, we have concluded that doubling the amount of carbon dioxide from .5g to 1g, added to 100mL of water, DOES in fact increase the rate of photosynthesis in elodea. Without the added sodium bicarbonate, the total oxygen produced was 108. When the extra .5g of baking soda was added, that number grew to 139, which is 31 units more. With the larger amount of baking soda added, the rate of photosynthesis shot up 28.7%. I hypothesized that If elodea is submerged in water with .5g of bisodium carbonate, and another .5g is added, then the production of oxygen will increase by 50%. My hypothesis was correct in the sense that the oxygen production grew, but not by the 50%, which is what I predicted. Analysis: Now, we are faced with a question. What caused this huge rift between data? While one period has 108 with .5g of baking soda, period 7 has 3.8. Thats
an 104.2 range, right there. What made the results inconsistent? It may have been the elodea, the water, or a combination of the two. Also, I think the two periods had two very different ideas of what small, medium, and large bubbles are. This can be remedied by making sure all testing materials are the exact same in amount. Also. Give the class the other classes averages before they start, to give them an idea of what the other classes saw. If necessary, have one person in the class be the counter for everyone; so all groups have the same idea of what size category the bubbles fall into. Bibliography: http://aquaplant.tamu.edu/plantidentification/alphabetical-index/elodea/ - Elodea Research http://scienceaid.co.uk/biology/biochemistry/photosyn thesis.html - Finding Necessary Compounds in Photosynthesis http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/bi9201.html - Research on if Sodium Bicarbonate Will Increase Photosynthesis