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प्रश्न
Give Reasons for the following.
Salt and sugar are used in preserving food.
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उत्तर
Salt and sugar increase the concentration of food, destroying bacteria by plasmolysis.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Complete the following statements:
Hypotonic solution is one in which the solution kept outside the cell has lower solute concentration than ……………… the cell.
A leaf cell of a water plant was placed in a liquid other than pond water. After sometime, it assumed a shape as shown below:
Comment on the nature (tonicity) of the liquid surrounding the cell.
Give at least three uses of water to green plants
What is the significance of diffusion?
Give Reasons for the following.
Drops of water on a leaf of plant like peepal does not enter the leaf by osmosis?
The diagram given below is of an experiment just at the start. Study the diagram carefully and answer the following questions :
(i) What does the experiment demonstrate?
(ii) Define, the process demonstrated in the experiment.
(iii) What changes are observed after a few hours?
(iv) Give two examples of a semi-permeable membrane.
(v) Which limb of the U-tube contains a more concentrated sucrose solution, A or B?
(vi) Why is the membrane separating the two solutions labeled as semi-permeable membrane?
Name the following:
The process by which raisins swell up when placed in a beaker of water.
Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:
Osmosis is defined as the movement of water from a concentrated sugar solution to a dilute sugar solution.
When a cell in solution shrinks and loses its shape, then the solution is ______.
