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Maximize your revision with this helpful guide on plant nutrients and chemical tests. Learn about nutrients produced in plants, tests for starch, glucose, protein, and fat/oil, as well as fermentation, distillation, and consumer products made from plants.
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The following slides should help you with your revision, but should not be your only form of revision. Remember to use your notes, a textbook, websites and Past Papers to help you. You can also ask a chemistry teacher for help too.
Give an example of a nutrient produced in plants? Proteins Carbohydrates Oils Vitamins Minerals
What is the test for the presence of Starch? Turns iodine solution blue/black
What is the test for the presence of Glucose? Turns Benedicts solution orange
What is the test for the presence of protein? Produces an alkaline gas when heating with soda lime.
What is the test for the presence of fat/oil? Filter paper become translucent when fat oil is rubbed onto its surface.
What is Fermentation? The process of converting plant sugars into alcohol
What is Distillation? The process used to make alcohol more concentrated.
Give examples of consumer products produced from plants. Medicines, Soaps, Cosmetics, Dyes, Foods, Food colourings, Pharmaceuticals