10 Questions
What is the term for the pressure created by pushing in a typical cell?
Turgor Pressure
Which type of pressure in a xylem vessel is considered as 'Tension'?
Hydrostatic Pressure
What happens to water potential in a cell when it experiences negative hydrostatic pressure?
Decreases
What happens to a plant cell when it loses turgor pressure?
Wilting
What type of bonding contributes to the cohesion between water molecules?
Hydrogen Bonding
Which term describes the reduced water potential under negative hydrostatic pressure?
'Dehydration'
What is the term for the process where a plant cell loses water and its plasma membrane detaches from the cell wall?
'Plasmolysis'
Which phenomenon occurs due to the weakening of hydrogen bonds between water molecules?
'Surface Tension'
What happens to a plant cell when it is placed in a hypertonic sucrose solution?
'Plasmolysis'
Which term describes the combined effect of cohesion and adhesion in water movement through xylem vessels?
'Transpiration Cohesion-Tension Theory'
Understand how hydrostatic pressure and water potential change in plant cells with the movement of water. Learn how solute potential, water potential, and pressure potential are calculated in a plant cell.
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