Question

In brief state what happens when: (a) dry apricots are left for sometime in pure water and later transferred to sugar solution? (b) a red blood cell is kept in concentrated saline solution? (c) the plasma membrane of a cell breaks down? (d) rheo leaves are boiled in water first and then a drop of sugar syrup is put on it? (e) golgi apparatus is removed from the cell?

Answer 1

Answer:

a. when a dry apricots are left in pure water it swells due to osmosis. When it is transferred to sugar solution it will shrink

b. red blood cells will shrink in saline solution

c.plasma membrane is the outer covering of a cell which keep a cell to store inside it . When it breaks the things inside it flows out and the cell can be dead

d when the cell is boiled the cells in the leaves will be dead and their is no shrinking when we put the sugar syrup

e. all forms of vesicle formation stops

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