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Radioactive Carbon Form Plant Describe Process Autoradiography Sugar

Front Describe the process of autoradiography
Back Use Carbon 14 therefore radioactive carbon will be used to form a radioactive form of sugar during photosynthesis.
Use a radioactive tracer to see where substances have spread to. The plant is killed by freezing it in liquid nitrogen. Whole plant is placed on photogenic film

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