Starch as a nutritional reserve substance in plants

Principle
The most significant process on earth takes place inside the chloroplasts of the cell, i.e. photosynthesis. Energy-rich glucose (dextrose) and oxygen are synthesized from the energy-poor substances carbon dioxide and water. The energy comes from the
sun. The plant converts glucose into starch for storage.

Benefits

• Experiment is part of a complete solution set with a total of 50 experiments for all microscopy applications
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Tasks
The nutritional reserve substance, starch, which plants contain is made distinctly visible by changing the illumination and by means of staining.

Learning objectives

• Starch
• Chloroplasts
• Photosynthesis
• Plants
• Carbon dioxide
• Water
• Glucose