Advertisements
Advertisements
प्रश्न
The hydrostatic pressure of the cell sap on the cell wall is called ______.
पर्याय
Turgor pressure
Osmotic pressure
Wall pressure
Atmospheric pressure
Advertisements
उत्तर
The hydrostatic pressure of the cell sap on the cell wall is called Turgor pressure.
Explanation:
Turgor pressure is the force exerted by cell contents against the cell wall.
संबंधित प्रश्न
Explain Turgor pressure
Give reasons for the following:
If you sprinkle some common salt on grass growing on a lawn, it is killed at that spot.
Give reason for the following:
It is better to transplant seedlings in a flower-bed in the evening and not in the morning.
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.
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.
Name the following:
The process by which wilting or drooping of leaves occurs.
Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:
Flaccidity is the reverse of turgidity.
Fill in the Blank
Wilting and drooping of leaves is due to loss of ________.
When the cells of a plant are fully distended, the condition is called ______.
Addition of salt to pickles is a method of killing the bacteria by ______.
