what would happen to a plant if its leaves were completly coated with petroleum jelly?
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It would die because air and water(through transpiration, which is the loss of H2O through the leaves) cannot get in and out of the plant, so it suffocates. The stoma can still function, but the Jelly forms a barrier, so nothing goes in or out of them.
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It sounds like the kind of thing that would reduce the growth of plants.  But maybe there would be more helpful answers in a section other than "Comics and Animation".
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If this is a plant, there will be thousands of chemicals present.  Of course water and celluose will be #1 and #2.
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Nothing.  Except have a lower water volume due to warmer water molecules converting to gas.  However, the warmer water may have an efffect on the plants you are studying.  If you water a plant with hot water it may kill the plant.
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There are two reasons for it-\n1-Ageing resulting into decomposition of pigment. \n2-digestion of cyoplasm due to lytic enzymes and oxidants.\n3-Withdrawal of nutrient and necessary material from leaf to plant.
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If mishandled (someone went to the bathroom without washing his hands, then stuck his hands in the syrup) or untreated, it could definitely grow microorganims that can cause illness. However, I'm not aware of a plant disease that could be communicated to humans if that was your question.
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Put it in a dark room. If the mold had chlorophyll it would die without sun light. Molds do not and would consume the entire orange.
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they might give you a long day on the porcelain throne, but unless you eat a couple pounds, unless they are contaimated with a seriously bad type of fungi, i doubt they will kill you.\n\nbut soaking them for a while like earlier suggested was a great idea!
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There is a really good read on plants called 'The Secret Life of Plants' it has been such a long time since i read it so i can't actually remember that well but plants respond to music in the findings of the book, so yes it would have a possible effect. Check out this link:\nhttp://www.earthpulse.com/products/secret.html
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If the world suddenly turned into a tangerine, it would burn up and start to "fall/move" twords the sun.  It would probably split apart, and no life would survive.\n\nHowever, the chances of that happening are very, very slim, and If I were you, I wouldn't worry about it.  I mean really, really don't worry about it, there is a better chance of the world turning into an overcooked Mud Pie, so that is what you should be worried about instead.
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First, you wouldn't wanna do that.\nSecond, you wouldn't wanna be around it when it is done.\nAnd third, I think it would gain energy from the surroundings, which would be C4, and evaporate without leaving a residue. So you would be back to square one after a while.
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lol... funny... that'd be a freaking nightmare! The plants would outnumber the humans, war would break out, and one of us would need to win... hm... Yeah, we'd still eat them and cut them!
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When the leaf is alive, it will take the light by absorbing it with the clorophile. This is esential to continue with the process, for that is the moment when the plant takes its energy for the creation of new compounds.\nBy removing it, you're preventing it from using any more energy from the outside to create organic compounds, thus leaving the leaf useless to do photosyntesis.\nWhen you boil the leaf, you're raising the temperature of it. By doing so, you're breaking up the structure of the clorophile, and destroying it.
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No.\n\nFirst off chlorphyll is just a tiny part of an incredibly complex system of pigments and enzymes needed to harvest light. It is really akin to asking whether you could glue a carburettor to the side of a cardborad box and turn it into an airplane.\n\nA more plausible route would be to implant entire chlorplasts into an animal cell line. That has potential, but only for narrow range of animals.\n\nSee, the thing about chloroplasts is they need light to work. And the thing about most animals is that they have evolved pigments to stop light penetrating their cells. The two conditions are mutually exclsuive. You could implant or the chlorplasts you like into a human and they won't do anything because they will be permanently in the dark.\n\nWith transparent animals like jellyfish or glass fish or similar you probably could achieve some level of autotrophic activity.\n\nIn the case of a highly active animal like a human the payoff wouldn't be worth the cost. Chlorplasts require energy to build and maintain and active animals can't afford to laze around int he sun all day. That's why the ancestors of animals abandoned their chlorophyll in the first place (did you know that all animals are descended from photosyntheic organisms?)\n\nBut with slow moving animals like jellyfish it becomes more plausible. Some jellyfish already utilise symbiotic algae to harvest sunlight, so for those species the addition of inherent chloroplasts could be a major boon.
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The effect of acid rain on Spirogyra-It is found that the concentrations of the sulfuic acid rain simulation damaged the Spirogyra cell structure to a greater degree than the nitric acid. Though the nitric acid rain simulation had\nsimilar damaging effects to cell structure and color, in both concentrations and pH levels, the sulfuric acid\nseemed to create greater cell damage and therefore would be considered more harmful to plant life.Sulfuric acid is more harmful to the cellular structureof Spirogyra than nitric acid. These findings are important because among other things, they show that acid rain negatively affects our ecosystem because it damages the most basic levels of the food chain and thus jeopardizes the higher forms of life. Acid rain also causes changes to the atmosphere, more\npollution, and damages trees, which absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.
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We cant know for sure, because we cant analyze stomach contents...yet.  But there were very large ferns covering the same area at this time, and would likely be very nutritious.
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Possible. because you will find fungi, pollen, spores, fertilzer and the like in fresh and used potting soil.\nRemember that potting soil today is most likely ground up wood, bark, dirt, vermiculite etc.\nYou could sterilize the soil and reduce allergens, but you would still have to go back and enrich.\nIn the not to distant past commercial potting mixtures were sold as peat moss, but today it is more correctly named potting soil.\nIt is a pretty good medium for your plants, but will harbor the allergens and house plant pests.