How can the methods be written in concise sentences, in the past tense where the

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How can the methods be written in concise sentences, in the past tense where there should be sufficient information so that someone else may duplicate your experiment. Additionally including the use of control and replication and how the data was statistically indicated.
1.Carefully remove all the leaves from each plant, cutting the leaf or pinching the leaves off at the point where the leaf joins the petiole (make sure you keep each plant separate)

2. Spread them out on the bench so that they don’t overlap

3. Take a photo with the camera on your phone from directly above the leaves, with a ruler in the photo to provide scale.

4. Keep the leaves; you’ll need them later for the respiration investigation and to send off for biomass measurements   

5. Send the photos from your phone to your student email account

6. Leaf area can be estimated from your photo using ImageJ, which is loaded on the computers in the lab 7. Note down the leaf area in cm2 per plant in the results section below

8. Input your group results into class spreadsheet

9. Whilst one person in your group analyses leaf surface areas using Image J try to think of other parameters you can measure easily and record them below. You will need to have at least one other measurement that you take for your Scientific Report Assessment.  

Explanation / Answer

1) We caredully removed all the leaves from the plant at their joint and we spreaded them on bench so they wont overlap

2) We took the image of the leaves with a ruler on its side

3) Leaf area was estimated using Image J software

4) We Noted down the leaf area in cm2 per plant in the results section below

Estimating leaf area

The rate of transpiration is measured as the amount of water lost per square meter per minute. Because water evaporates through the stomata on the leaf surface, the rate of transpiration is directly related to the surface area. To arrive at the rate of transpiration, therefore, you must calculate the leaf surface area of each plant: Because most stomata are found in the lower epidermis, you will determine that surface area.

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