Day 2: slight mark where the paper covered the leaf; it is a lighter green than the rest of the leaf.

Question

Day 4: yellow circle where the construction paper was.
Day 7: almost white circle where the paper covered the leaf.
Using 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?
• Those leaves will fall off and the rest of the plant will continue to grow and perform photosynthesis.
•The 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.
The plant will die because the damage caused by the construction paper circles prohibited photosynthesis to occur at all.
Those areas that were covered by the paper circles will now be able to absorb the sunlight energy into the O chlorophyll contained in the chloroplasts, photosynthesis will occur in those areas, and the green color will
eventually return.

Answer 1

• The 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 sunlight energy is being absorbed by the chlorophyll contained in the chloroplasts.