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Surface Area to Volume Ratios in Plants (Arid vs. Moist Environments) The ability of plants to survive in certain environments depends on many abiotic factors such as the amount of water or light available. It is important to look at how these factors affect the ....

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.... plants. It is observed that plants in moist environments have more lush, larger foliage, while plants inhabiting desert conditions are generally smaller and have less photosynthetic surface areas. Hypothesis: Alternative Hypothesis: states the hypothesis being tested in this experiment. Photosynthetic structures of plants adapted to arid environments have a lower surface area to volume ratio than plants adapted to less dry or moist environments. Null hypothesis: there are no differences between the wet and dry habitat plants and observed differences are purely a result of chance. The null hypothesis is formulated to be rejected. Methods: ....