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Questions Set1 - Water Potential
Questions Set1 - Water Potential
Questions Set1 - Water Potential
Water potential
1. If the cell sap of a plant cell has an osmotic potential of -2.0
MPa, what will the cell water potential and cell pressure potential
be at (a) incipient plasmolysis, and (b) full turgor, assuming no
change in the osmotic potential due to dilution?
2. An algal cell is moved from water to a hypertonic solution.
What happens? How does one describe the cell's condition? How do
water potential, osmotic potential, and pressure potential change?
11. Calculate Ψw, Ψs, and Ψp for the cells in a thin slice of plant
tissue using data that show the gain and loss of weight, and the %
plasmolysis, when the tissue is placed in different concentrations of
sucrose. What errors are inherent in this method?
Sucrose concentration Weight %
(Molal) change (g) plasmolysis
0 + 0.53 0
0.05 +0.50 0
0.1 +0.40 0
0.15 +0.15 0
0.2 -0.05 0
0.25 -0.20 10
0.30 -0.40 90