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प्रश्न
The apparatus arranged here signifies an important process.
(i) Name the process.
(ii) Where does this process occur in plants?
(iii) What solution is placed inside the dialysis tubing?
(iv) What happens to the level of the solution in the capillary tube?
(v) Define the process mentioned in Q. (i) above.
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उत्तर
(1) The process is called osmosis.
(ii) This process occurs in the root hair cells of plants.
(iii) The solution placed inside the dialysis tubing is generally strong sugar solution or salt solution.
(iv) The level of the solution in the capillary tube rises above the original level.
(v) Osmosis is a physiological process where the water molecules or solvent molecules move through a semi-permeable membrane from a solution having a higher concentration of solvent molecules to the solution having a lower concentration of water or solvent molecules.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Osmosis and diffusion are the same except that osmosis there is:
Distinguish between the following:
Plasmolysis and deplasmolysis
Name the following:
Condition of cell in which the cell contents are shrunken.
Give Reasons for the following.
Salt and sugar are used in preserving food.
Give Reasons for the following.
The raisins swell up in the water.
Give Reasons for the following.
Drops of water on a leaf of plant like peepal does not enter the leaf by osmosis?
Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:
Plasmolysis makes the cell turgid.
Explain the Term:
Osmosis
When a cell in solution shrinks and loses its shape, then the solution is ______.
