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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:
Comment on the nature (tonicity) of the liquid surrounding the cell.
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Solution
The liquid is hypertonic solution. It has higher solute concentration outside the cell than the fluids inside the cell.
RELATED QUESTIONS
Complete the following statements:
Hypotonic solution is one in which the solution kept outside the cell has lower solute concentration than ……………… the cell.
(a) Mention whether the following statement is true (True) or false (False)
(b) Correct the false statement by altering the last word only.
A plant cell placed in hypotonic solution gets Plasmolysed.
Mention whether the following statement is true or false. Correct the false statement by altering the last word only.
The shrinkage of protoplasm, when a cell is kept in hypotonic solution.
Name the following:
Condition of cell in which the cell contents are shrunken.
Name the following:
Movement of molecules from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration.
Define the cohesive force.
Give Technical Term for the following.
Solutions which have the same osmotic pressure.
Fill in the Blank
When there is no movement of water in the cell from the outside medium, the medium is considered to be ______ to cell sap.
Explain the term:
Plasmolysis
