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Question
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.
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Solution
(i) Flaccid.
(ii) Plasma membrane.
(iii) If the cell had been placed in distilled water it remains in a fully distended condition. Its plasma membrane remains in close contact with the cell wall and presses against it.
(iv) Chloroplast will be present in the protoplasm outside the vacuole.
(v) Cell wall.
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