Question

you took a fresh tomata and put it in a highly concentrated salt solution for 2houres. your little brother looked at it and stated"the fat tomota is so thin now" what is magic? (a)define the phenomenon which his taken place.(b)how does a cell wall help a plant to withstand hypotonic external media without bursting

Answer 1

a) it is the phenomenon of osmosis in which water molecules moves from area of higher concentration to an area of higher concentration through a selectively permeable membrene
b) because it provides turgidity to cell