Question

You took a fresh tomato and put it in a highly concentrated salt solution for two
hrs. Your brother looks at it and stated ‘the fat tomato is so thin’ what a magic?
i. Define the phenomenon which has taken place.
ii. How does the cell wall help a plant to withstand hypotonic external
medium without bursting?

Answer 1

Answer:

hey buddy ..

i) the phenomenon that took place was osmosis .. and it is defined as the process of movement of solvent particles from lower conc. to higher conc. of solute through semipermeable membrane is known as osmosis.

ii) the cell wall is a rigid str which holds the flacid plasma membrane which help it to withstand the condition without bursting ..

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