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Question
The below figure shows a root hair:
(i) Label the parts 1 to 4.
(ii) What is the role of part 4?
(iii) Why is the root hair one-celled?
(iv) What will happen to the root hair if some fertilizer is added to the soil near the root hair?
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Solution
(i) 1. Nucleus
2. Vacuole
3. Cell wall
4. Cell membrane
(ii) Part 4 is the cell membrane. It is semi-permeable. It allows only water molecules to pass through it.
(iii) Because it is an extension of epiblema cell.
(iv) By the addition of fertilizer, root hair becomes flaccid, because water will move out of it as soil water becomes hypertonic.
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