(English Medium) ICSE Class 10 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions

Give Technical Term for the following.
A solution whose concentration is greater than that of the cell sap.

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The pressure which is responsible for the movement of water molecules across the cortical cells of the root.

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The condition in which the water from a cell is completely removed due to exosmosis and no more shrinkage is possible.

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The pressure through which water can rise upto some feet.

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The movement of a liquid through a selectively permeable membrane.

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Name the process by which water enters the root hair cell.

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The process by which raisins swell up when placed in a beaker of water.

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Condition of cell in which the cell content are shrunken.

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The pressure which develops in the cortical cells of root which force a part of the water upward ____________.

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When there is no movement of water in the cell from the outside medium, the medium is considered to be ______ to cell sap.

Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:

During exosmosis, water moves from inside the cell to the outside of the cell.

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A plasmolysed cell has __________ protoplast.

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Raisin swells up when kept in a __________ solution.

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Diffusion is the movement of molecules from a region of their ________ concentration to the region of their ________ concentration.

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.

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Osmosis in the diffusion of _______ molecules from the region of higher _____  potential to that of lower potential across a S.P.M.

Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:

The plasma membrane permits the passage of all solutes and water.

Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:

Plasmolysis makes the cell turgid.

Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:

Cells that have lost their water content are said to be deplasmolysed.

Multiple Choice Question:

In the process of osmosis in a cell: