Question

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!! In 1772, Joseph Priestley ran experiments with a candle, a bell jar, and healthy leaves plucked from a mint plant. He ran the two experiments summarized below:

These experiments inspired another scientist, Jan Ingenhousz, to run related experiments. Ingenhousz added an additional variable-he ran the experiments in the presence and absence of light. His results are summarized below:

1.) Explain why the mint leaves sustained the candle flame in Priestley's experiment.

2.) explain what Ingenhouz's demonstrated about the interdependence of energy producing processing and living organisms.
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Answer 1

1) The mint leaves were able to sustain the candle flame because of plants ability to produce oxygen.

2) Ingenhousz demonstrated how a plant recycles energy through processes. In the dark, the plant cannot sustain a flame because it is only releasing carbon dioxide due to the lack of sunlight. But in the light the plant can overcompensate for it's carbon dioxide release with photosynthesis and produce oxygen for the flame therefore demonstrating the interdependence of energy producing processing in a living organism.

Step-by-step explanation: