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प्रश्न
Excessive use of fertilisers in agricultural fields reduces the yield of crops. Justify the statement.
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उत्तर
The excessive use of fertilizers in agriculture increases the concentration of solvents outside of the root cells, which causes exosmosis. The state of the crops becomes plasmolysis/Flaccid, which results in a diminishing yield.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Explain Turgor pressure
The state of a cell in which the cell wall is rigid and stretched by the increase in volume due to the absorption of water is called.
What is the difference between ‘flaccid’ and ‘turgid’? Give one example of flaccid condition in plants.
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:
- Give the term for the state of the cell it has acquired.
- Name the structure which acts as a selectively permeable membrane.
- Comment on the nature (tonicity) of the liquid surrounding the cell.
- Name any one feature of this plant cell which is not present in an animal cell.
- Redraw in the space provided, the diagram of the cell if it is soon placed in ordinary water for some time.
Differentiate between:
Turgid and Flaccid.
The below diagram represents a plant cell after being placed in a strong sugar solution. Guidelines 1 to 5 indicate the following:
1. Cell wall
2. Plasma membrane.
3. Protoplasm
4. Large vacuole
5. Nucleus
Study the diagram and answer the questions that follow :
(i) What is the state of the cell shown in the diagram?
(ii) Name the structure which acts as a selectively permeable membrane.
(iii) If the cell had been placed in distilled water instead of a strong sugar solution which features: would not have been present?
(iv) If the cell in the diagram possessed chloroplasts where would these be present?
(v) Name any one feature of this plant cell which is not present in animal cells.
Give Technical Term for the following.
The pressure exerted by cell contents on a plant cell wall.
Name the following:
The process by which wilting or drooping of leaves occurs.
Deplasmolysis occurs when a plasmolysed cell is placed in ______.
Give the equivalent term for the following:
Pressure exerted by the cell contents on the cell wall.
