A variegated leaf has green as well as non-green parts.

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Q. Arun carried out the following experiment with a croton (variegated) leaf. He drew the leaf in his notebook marking the green and the non-green area. He put the leaf in hot alcohol till all the green colour came out and the leaf turned white. He then washed the leaf in water and covered the leaf in iodine solution.
(a) Why did he draw the leaf and mark the green and non-green areas?
(b) What was the colour change in iodine solution?
(c) Which portions of the leaf show colour change?
(d) what can you conclude from this experiment?

A variegated leaf is put in between two pieces of cork inserted in the mouth of a bottle containing a small amount of KOH .The leaf is fixed in such a way that some part of it is inside the bottle; some in between the piece of cork & rest outside. The petiole of a leaf is dipped in water. The whole examination is under proper temperature & light.
Why does photosynthesis takes place in the green parts of leaf situated outside the bottle?

Q. The non-green part of a variegated leaf, after the starch test, exhibits which colour?

Leaves that consist of both green and non-green parts are called variegated leaves.

Leaves that consist of both green and non-green parts are called variegated leaves. State true or false.

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