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Question
Name the following:
The condition in which the contents of a cell exert pressure against the cell wall making it distended.
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Solution
Turgidity
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Explain Turgor pressure
Give the equivalent term for the following:
Loss of water through a cut stem.
Differentiate between the following:
Turgor pressure and wall pressure
Give reason for the following:
A plant cell, when kept in a hypertonic salt solution for about 30 minutes, turns 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.
Fill in the Blank
Wilting and drooping of leaves is due to loss of ________.
Deplasmolysis occurs when a plasmolysed cell is placed in ______.
The hydrostatic pressure of the cell sap on the cell wall is called ______.
When the cells of a plant are fully distended, the condition is called ______.
