Anjali wanted to eat rice and kidney bean (rajmah). She requested her mother to cook the same on next day. Her mother took a cup of kidney beans and put them in a container having some water and kept the container overnight. Next day it was observed that the kidney beans got swollen and were ready to be cooked. What is this phenomenon due to which kidney beans got swollen, known as?
Answers
the phenomenon due to which the kidney beans got swollen is known as Osmosis.
Explanation:
Osmosis is one of the characteristics of a substance by virtue of which water moves from the region of lower concentration to the region of higher concentration of solute. the kidney bean has high concentration of solution it. as water enters within the cell it is known as endosmosis.
As a result of this there is movement of water from the cup which contains no salute to the kidney bean due to which it got swollen.
Answer:
(i) Kidney beans are seed and each cell of it is covered with porous cell wall and semipermeable plasma membrane. By the process of endosmosis, water is diffussed in kidney beans upon soaking overnight end they get swollen and become palatable after cooking.
(ii) Endosomosis.
(iii) White grams (Kabul chana or choley or chicken pea (gram of chana).