im doing a project and i need research, how do different liquids change the way a plant grows?
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Water is crucial to photosynthasis, but you may be surprised at the results of other liquids (that are water based of course, everything else will kill the plant---fast!) Just play around with it, that is the fun of experiments. Try some liquids that are more acidic and some that are more basic. Sprite, asprin dissolved in water.... Maybe try coffee--I know that coffee grounds work as a great compost and make plants grow faster and fuller. Who know? Good luck & have fun!
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Okay, the difference between water and soda is the addition of sugar and CO2. Some plants can actually metabolize sugar, and they all breathe in CO2, which sounds good. But, the CO2 is under pressure, or it wouldn't stay in solution, so it will probably increase the pressure inside the plant's cells. Which, depending on the plant, may rip it apart. Or not. Hope that helps.
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Plants have small openings on the underside of their leaves called stomata. The roots pull in water and it travels up and out the stomata. The lower humidity outside the plant pulls the water out.
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I did a demonstration on the affects of acid rain on plants once.  I used 5 identical, healthy house plants and watered them everyday with varying ratios of a water:vinegar mixture.  Pure water, 5 parts water:1 part vinegar, 5:2, 5:3, 5:4 and so on.  I recorded my observations each day for 10 days.  The impact that the acidity had on the plants with high vinegar ratios was pretty neat to watch and document.  You of course would have to explain how the vinegar acted like acid rain would but there are plenty of resources for this on the net.
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nitrogen fixation\n\nNot sure about the details, but I think that fungi or bacteria on plant's roots do this.
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Any rooted plant does - you could pick an oak tree or a rose bush, or even a marijuana plant if you wanted.\n\nThe roots grow down, toward the center of gravity. The leaves and stem grow up, away from the center of gravity.
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>>>>how is a plant wall made\n\nBy the actions of enzymes that syntehsis celluose from dissolved sugars.\n\n>>>how does a plant get water from the soil to he plant\n\nVia translocation.\n\n>>>what's transpiration?\n\nThe movement of water out of stomata via evaporation.
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if you experiment with potted plants, it is likely, that far more nutrient is in the soil, so you will observe nothing. (only some plants do not tolerate too much watering, too cold water, chlorinated water - fresh from tap, ) I suggest you go for hydroponia (plant in water and nothing else) so that you can get somewhere. I also suggest you use seeds so that you have larger number of identical material - lets say each experimental variant will look like three-five  dishes with 50 cress/mustard seeds each.  (TO RULE OUT CHANCE!!! ) you can try different waters and your experiment will still take up the space on one window sill or small desk. You will observe different coloration, growth rate, as the plants will experience lack of nutrients (you can also try different fertilizers, different ammount of it, do chemical tests with your waters). I dont recomment larger seeds than that, because then you will have much nutrients in the seeds themselves.\ngood luck
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Flowers drink water with a capillary action.  Capillary action happens when water molecules are more attracted to the surface they travel along than to each other. In paper towels, the molecules move along tiny fibers. In plants, they move through narrow tubes that are actually called capillaries. Plants couldn't survive without capillaries because they use the water to make their food.  There is an experiement you can try at the link below.
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The water potential of pure water is defined as 0. Adding any solute makes the water potential negative. The more solute that is added, the more negative the water potential will become.\nIn osmosis, water moves from a less negative to a more negative water potential. Increasing the sucrose concentration in a tuber cell ought to increase the uptake of water, but it is not that simple because the water potential of plant cells depends upon both the solute concentration and the pressure exerted by the cell wall.\nAs the cell absorbs water, the pressure exerted by the wall increases. Eventually it will prevent the uptake of any more water and the cell will be turgid and have a water potential of 0.
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Yes. It does. Since there is more sugar in the water outside of the plant than there is in the water in the plant, the sugar solution will be hypertonic (higher concentration of solutes). This will cause osmosis to occur, causing water to flow out of the plant and into the sugar water to equilize the content. This will drain the vacuoles in the plant cells, and cause them to shrivel up inside of the cell wall.
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You usually use hydroponics, i.e. you add salts of different essential macr and micro nutrients like iron oxide and potassium nitrate and add some EDTA to stop precipitation. But if yours is a low level experiment, try different types of soil --clay, sand and loam, and add in different amounts of water, maintain in diff. temp. and lighting.
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You will see results in the growth of the plant, but remember to only use the coffee grounds.  Depending on the size of the plant, you'll just need to figure out how much/little to use and how often.
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water... it's the nutrients, minerals etc. IN the water that makes it grow
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go to google images and type "different types of house plants"\nsee what you get
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one generally uses pure water as a base point. other liquids are typically refrenced as lighter or heavier than water.
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Well you might start with reading about the scientific method.  There in you might find you need two study groups and likly several kinds of plants.  \nI would start with easily grown from seed plants.  Given identical stimuli except one group gets exposed to music.  Now a truly interested party would have several more groups and vary the added stimuli with various kinds of music.  eg. rock, punk, blues, opera, elevator type, etc....no doubt one might find that the added stimulis might alter the outcome in each of the test groups to get the added stimuli.  Too, one may find that certain plants behave differently to that added stimuli.  Might even vary it again by adding identcal plants alredy growing to each group.