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    The experiment aimed to study the effects of macronutrient deficiencies on plant growth. Seedlings were grown in complete culture solution or solutions lacking nitrogen, phosphorus, or potassium. Deficiencies stunted plant growth, with nitrogen-deficient plants showing yellow leaves and phosphorus-deficient plants showing purplish leaves. The experiment supported the hypothesis that macronutrient deficiencies inhibit plant growth.

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    Experiment 4

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    The experiment aimed to study the effects of macronutrient deficiencies on plant growth. Seedlings were grown in complete culture solution or solutions lacking nitrogen, phosphorus, or potassium. Deficiencies stunted plant growth, with nitrogen-deficient plants showing yellow leaves and phosphorus-deficient plants showing purplish leaves. The experiment supported the hypothesis that macronutrient deficiencies inhibit plant growth.

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    The experiment aimed to study the effects of macronutrient deficiencies on plant growth. Seedlings were grown in complete culture solution or solutions lacking nitrogen, phosphorus, or potassium. Deficiencies stunted plant growth, with nitrogen-deficient plants showing yellow leaves and phosphorus-deficient plants showing purplish leaves. The experiment supported the hypothesis that macronutrient deficiencies inhibit plant growth.

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    Experiment 4

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    The experiment aimed to study the effects of macronutrient deficiencies on plant growth. Seedlings were grown in complete culture solution or solutions lacking nitrogen, phosphorus, or potassium. Deficiencies stunted plant growth, with nitrogen-deficient plants showing yellow leaves and phosphorus-deficient plants showing purplish leaves. The experiment supported the hypothesis that macronutrient deficiencies inhibit plant growth.

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    Experiment 2.

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    Title ： Macronutrient deficiency effect

    Aim: To study the effects of macronutrient (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) deficiency on
    plant growth?

    Problem statement: What are the effects of macronutrient (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium)
    deficiency on plant growth?

    Hypothesis: Deficiency of macronutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) stunts plant growth.

    Variables:
    a) Manipulated variable : Type of culture solution
    b) Responding variable: Growth of plant
    c) Constant variable: volume of culture solution, size and type of seedlings, light and temperature

    Materials: Distilled water, complete culture solution, culture solution without nitrogen, culture solution
    without phosphorus, culture solution without potassium, maize seedlings, black paper and cotton
    wool.
    Apparatus: Boiling tube, connecting tube, air pump and cork.

    Procedure:

    1. Prepare the apparatus set-up (Figure 2.8).


    2. The apparatus set-up is placed in a bright place such as near the laboratory window where there is
    sunlight.
    3. Air is pumped into the culture solution in each boiling tube for 5 minutes every day.
    4. The culture solution in each boiling tube is replaced once a week with the same type of culture solution.
    5. After two weeks, the conditions of the seedlings are observed and recorded in term of size of plant,
    colour of leaves and the growth of roots.

    1
    Observation:
    Type of culture solution Nutrient Plant growth
    deficiency Plant size Colour of leaf Root growth
    Complete culture none Normal Green Normal
    solution
    Complete culture Nitrogen Small Yellow Normal
    solution without nitrogen
    Complete culture Phosphorus Small Purplish Deteriorates
    solution without /bluish with
    phosphorus brown edges
    Complete culture Potassium Small Yellow with Reduced
    solution without brown spots
    potassium

    Discussion:
    The boiling tube wrapped in black paper to block the light form entering the culture solution in the
    boiling tubes. Culture solution exposed to light encourages growth of algae. Algae will absorb nutrients
    from the culture solution and affect the results of the experiment. The purpose of aerating the culture
    solutions is supplies oxygen for the respiration of the roots. The culture solution in each boiling tube
    changed once a week with the same type of culture solutions to replace the macronutrients which have been
    absorbed by the seedlings. Besides nutrient, surrounding temperature, humidity of air, light intensity also
    affects the growth of seedlings.

    Conclusion:
    Plants need nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium for healthy growth. The hypothesis is accepted

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