Question

Explain what happenen when a drop of concentrated sugar solution is placed on a rheo leaf peal mounted on a glass slide . name this phenomenon . would the same happen if the rheo was boiled before mounted .reason

Answer 1

when a drop of concentrated sugar solution is placed on rheo leaf osmosis process takes place or we can say the cell gets plasmolysed as it shrinks and the amount of water in it gets tranfered to the surrounding medium/
sugar solution...but when rheo leaf is boiled..the cells of rheo leaf becomes dead and following plasmolysis doesnt occur
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