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What is the Difference Between ‘Flaccid’ and ‘Turgid’? Give One Example of Flaccid Condition in Plants. - Biology

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What is the difference between ‘flaccid’ and ‘turgid’? Give one example of flaccid condition in plants. 

 

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उत्तर

The cell is said to be turgid when the plant cell wall becomes rigid and stretched by an increase in the volume of vacuoles due to the absorption of water when placed in hypotonic solution. On the other hand, the cell is said to be flaccid when the cell contents get shrunken when the cell is placed in hypertonic solution and the cell is no more tight. Flaccidity is the reverse of turgidity. Example: Weeds can be killed in a playground by sprinkling excessive salts around their base.
Or
A plant cell when immersed in hypertonic solution like salt solution for about 30 minutes will become flaccid or limp. 

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संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Differentiate between the following:

Turgidity and Flaccidity


Give reason for the following:

A plant cell, when kept in a hypertonic salt solution for about 30 minutes, turns flaccid.


Mention whether the following statement is true (T) or false (F) and give an explanation in support of your answer.

Soaked seeds burst into three seed coats.


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.
A cell in a fully extended condition.


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.


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.


Given below is the figure of a plant cell showing different kinds of pressure acting upon it. Study the figure and answer the questions that follow:

  1. In the figure, 1, 2 and 3 represent:
    1. Cytoplasm, Nucleus, Vacuole respectively
    2. Vacuole, Cytoplasm, Cell wall respectively.
    3. Cytoplasm, Cell membrane and vacuole respectively.
    4. Cytoplasm, Cell wall and Vacuole respectively.
  2. B in the figure represents:
    1. Osmotic pressure
    2. Turgor pressure
    3. Wall pressure
    4. Diffusion pressure
  3. A in the figure represents:
    1. irnbibition pressure
    2. Wall pressure
    3. Turgor pressure
    4. Osmotic pressure
  4. C in the figure represents:
    1. Turgor pressure
    2. Osmotic pressure
    3. Wall pressure
    4. Imbibition pressure
  5. Draw a neat and labelled diagram of a plasmolyzed plant cell.

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