A student conducted a scientific experiment with a plant. She cut out three 1-inch circles from construction paper and attached each circle to a different leaf of the plant. Finally, she set the plant in front of a sunny window with good air flow and left it there. She made sure that the plant was given enough water during her experiment. After 2 days, she removed one of the circles; after 4 days, she removed another circle; and at the end of the week, she removed the last circle.%0D%0A%0D%0AHere are her results:%0D%0A%0D%0ADay 2: slight mark where the paper covered the leaf; it is a lighter green than the rest of the leaf.%0D%0A%0D%0ADay 4: yellow circle where the construction paper was.%0D%0A%0D%0ADay 7: almost white circle where the paper covered the leaf.%0D%0A%0D%0AUsing your knowledge of photosynthesis, which answer choice explains what most likely will happen to those leaves once the plant is put back in the sun without the construction paper circles attached?%0D%0A%0D%0A(1 point)%0D%0AResponses%0D%0A%0D%0AThe plant will die because the damage caused by the construction paper circles prohibited photosynthesis to occur at all.%0D%0AThe plant will die because the damage caused by the construction paper circles prohibited photosynthesis to occur at all.%0D%0A%0D%0AThose leaves will fall off and the rest of the plant will continue to grow and perform photosynthesis.%0D%0AThose leaves will fall off and the rest of the plant will continue to grow and perform photosynthesis.%0D%0A%0D%0AThose areas that were covered by the paper circles will now be able to absorb the sunlight energy into the chlorophyll contained in the chloroplasts, photosynthesis will occur in those areas, and the green color will eventually return.%0D%0AThose areas that were covered by the paper circles will now be able to absorb the sunlight energy into the chlorophyll contained in the chloroplasts, photosynthesis will occur in those areas, and the green color will eventually return.%0D%0A%0D%0AThe rest of the plant will develop yellow or white circles just like the leaves that had the construction paper circles on them and photosynthesis will not occur in those areas even though the sunligh energy is being absorbed by the chlorophyll contained in the chloroplasts.%0D%0AThe rest of the plant will develop yellow or white circles just like the leaves that had the construction paper circles on them and photosynthesis will not occur in those areas even though the sunligh energy is being absorbed by the chlorophyll contained in the chloroplasts.%0D%0ASkip to navigation

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The correct answer is:

Those areas that were covered by the paper circles will now be able to absorb the sunlight energy into the chlorophyll contained in the chloroplasts, photosynthesis will occur in those areas, and the green color will eventually return.