Cells - The Unit of Life
Many freshwater organisms cannot live for long in seawater because the surrounding water will be ______ to body cells and ______ may occur.
Which of the following occupies the space between the cell wall and the shrunken protoplast in a plasmolysed cell?
If a plant cell is kept in hypertonic solution, water comes out from the cell sap due to exosmosis. Water loss from the cell sap results in contraction of protoplast, which is referred to as plasmolysis. The cell is surrounded by the hypertonic solution, and the cell wall allows entry of most of the solutions. The hypertonic solution enters the cell wall freely but is not allowed to cross the cell membrane.
Thus, the space between the cell wall and condensed protoplast is filled with hypertonic solution in a plasmolyzed cell.
Many freshwater organisms cannot live for long in seawater because the surrounding water will be ______ to body cells and ______ may occur.
When a plant cell is placed in a hypertonic solution it becomes plasmolysed. What shall be present between cell wall and plasmalemma at this stage?
Water potential of a cell, when it is placed in hypertonic solution
If a cell shrinks when placed in a solution, this solution is
To initiate cell plasmolysis, the salt concentration outside the cell must be