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Question
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.
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Solution
- Flaccid Cell (Plasmolysis)
- Plasma membrane
- Hypertonic solution
- Presence of cell wall
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