A student takes two strips from the epidermis of an onion and places one in distilled water and the other in concentrated salt solution.
She then uses a camera to photograph a sample of these cells under a microscope.
The photographs are shown in Figure 2.
The differences in the appearance of the plant cells are due to osmosis.
Q: Explain why the cells in distilled water look different when compared to the cells in the salt solution.
Answers
Answer:
When plant cells are placed in salt solution their appearance is different to when they are placed in distilled water. ... Therefore, water moves out of the cell across the partially permeable membrane by osmosis and the cell becomes flaccid as the cell membrane peels away from the cell wall.
Answer:
Plant cells that have been put in salt solution seem differently from those that have been placed in pure water. As a result, water escapes from the cell through the partly permeable membrane through osmosis, and the cell wall and membrane start to separate, causing the cell to become flaccid.
Explanation:
Plant cells that have been put in salt solution seem differently from those that have been placed in pure water. As a result, water escapes from the cell through the partly permeable membrane through osmosis, and the cell wall and membrane start to separate, causing the cell to become flaccid.
As a result, water escapes the cell via the partly permeable membrane via osmosis, and the cell wall and membrane separate, causing the cell to become flaccid.
As a result, the solvent in distilled water diffuses through the cell membrane from the outside, where it is at a lower concentration, to the inside, where it is at a larger concentration (inside). The plant cell takes water until it is unable to take any more; this is another instance of osmosis.
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