a. Describe fully what will occur if a plant cell is placed in a solution that has
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a. Describe fully what will occur if a plant cell is placed in a solution that has a higher water potential than the cell. Use the following terms in your answer.
cell wall, freely permeable, partially permeable, cell surface membrane, vacuole, tonoplast, cytoplasm, solute potential, pressure potential, water potential, turgid, osmosis, protoplast, equilibrium
b. Describe fully what will occur if a plant cell is placed in a solution that has a lower water potential than the cell. Use the following terms in your answer.
cell wall, freely permeable, partially permeable, cell surface membrane, vacuole, tonoplast, cytoplasm, solute potential, pressure potential, water potential, incipient plasmolysis, plasmolysed, osmosis, protoplast, equilibrium
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Cambridge International AS And A Level Biology
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