Question

Write your observations if a cut piece of potato is kept in salt water solution

Answer 1

Water will move from an area of less salt to more salt (more water to less water), and so when the potato is placed in the saltwater, all the water that is inside the potato (yes, plants have a lot of water inside of them, that's what gives a plant it's structure) moves out by osmosis.

Answer 2

Answer:

peeled and half cut potato was scooped to create a cavity in the middle. A salt solution was filled in the cavity and the potato was placed in a Petri dish filled with water.

Which process will occur in the given set-up? Why?

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The potato contains salt solution, while the petridish contains water.

The salt solution has greater concentration of solutes (high solute potential) and lower concentration of water (low water potential)

The water in the petridish does not contain any dissolved salts so, it is at a greater potential as compared to the salt solution in the potato

So, endosmosis takes place, where water moves from its higher potential to its lower potential i.e, from petridish into the potato.

The water inside the peeled potato is less as compared to outside. So the water will start moving from outside to inside the potato along the concentration gradient and this is called endosmosis.

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