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प्रश्न
Give reason for the following:
A plant cell, when kept in a hypertonic salt solution for about 30 minutes, turns flaccid.
उत्तर
In a hypertonic solution, the solution outside the cell has a higher solute concentration than the fluids inside the cell. Therefore, water flows out of the plant cell due to exosmosis. The cytoplasm shrinks, the plasma membrane withdraws away from the cell wall and the cell becomes flaccid. Hence, a plant cell, when kept in a hypertonic salt solution for about 30 minutes, turns flaccid.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The diagram below represents a process in plants. The setup was placed in bright sunlight. Answer the following questions:
a) Name the physiological process depicted in the diagram.
Why was oil added to the water?
b) When placed in bright sunlight for four hours, what do you observe with regard to the initial and final weight of the plant? Give a suitable reason for your answer
c) What happens to the level of water when this setup is placed in:
- Humid conditions?
- Windy conditions?
d) Mention any three adaptations found in plants to overcome the process mentioned in (i).
e) Explain the term ‘Guttation’.
Give the equivalent term for the following:
The condition in which the cell contents are shrunken.
Differentiate between the following:
Turgor pressure and wall pressure
Give reasons for the following:
If you sprinkle some common salt on grass growing on a lawn, it is killed at that spot.
Differentiate between the following:
Plasmolysis and Deplasmolysis.
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.
Give Technical Term for the following.
The pressure exerted by cell contents on a plant cell wall.
Fill in the Blank
Wilting and drooping of leaves is due to loss of ________.
Excessive use of fertilisers in agricultural fields reduces the yield of crops. Justify the statement.
Give the equivalent term for the following:
Pressure exerted by the cell contents on the cell wall.
