Take a healthy potted plant with elongated leaves. Select a leaf and insert about one half of this l

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Take a healthy potted plant with elongated leaves. Select a leaf and insert about one half of this leaf in a test tube containing KOH and make it air tight. Place the set-up in sun for two hours. Take out the leaf from the test tube and dip it in boiling water for a few minutes. Put this leaf in a beaker with alcohol and boil it in a water bath. Wash the leaf with water and then dip the leaf in iodine solution for a few minutes. The portion of the leaf dipped in KOH solution will not show any change when dipped in iodine solution.\ The event that does not occur in photosynthesis is\

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(c) : Following are the three events that occur during the process of photosynthesis :\ (I) Absorption of light energy by chlorophyll.\ (II) Conversion of light energy to chemical energy and splitting of water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.\ (III) Reduction of carbon dioxide to carbohydrates.\