What prevents plant cells from bursting when they are placed in hypotonic surroundings?

Q: Are chloroplast moving or stationary? Make an inference to explain this

A: Chloroplasts are found in the mesophyll cells of the leaves. These are lens-shaped, oval, spherical,…

Q: In theory, a plant kept in total darkness could still manufacture glucose, if it were supplied with…

A: Photorespiration is the process that occurs in the leaf mesophyll in the presence of light and where…

Q: What is the special name of photosynthetic parenchyma cells? Which organelle is especially abundant…

A: Plant physiology deals with the growth, development and response of the plant to the different…

Q: What would be the effect on plants if photorespiration did not exist?

A: Photorespiration is a process taking place in plants in which some of the energy produced by the…

Q: why is the phytochrome receptor of plant cells blue in color?

A: Plants consist of unique protein based receptors which responsible for mediating the phototropic…

Q: Sulphur oxides cause chlorosis and plasmolysis in green plants. What do you mean by chlorosis and…

A: Chlorosis can be defined as the condition in which leaves turn yellow as their tissue lack…

Q: Draw one elodea cell (freshwater plant) after being in saltwater. Label its choloroplast, cell wall,…

A: When Elodea cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, the plant cell loses water and hence turgor…

Q: What are some of the biological processes in which photophosphorylation plays a critical role?

A: Phosphorylation is a biochemical process that involves the addition of phosphate to an organic…

Q: why does water move inwards in a paramecium?

A: Paramecium is a unicellular organism that can be observed as the shape of a shoe sole. It is a…

Q: Explain how central vacuoles and cellulose cell walls contribute to plant growth

A: Plants are autotrophs in nature. They consist of the cell wall, which is absent in animal cells.…

Q: The intermediate growth in a plant is due to what?

A: The question asks about the cause of intermediate growth in plants.

Q: What is the function of barrier insulators?

A: Genes are the basic structural and functional unit of heredity. They carry coded genetic information…

Q: Could a plant cell produce ATP through chemiosmosis if the thylakoid membranes of its chloroplasts…

A: The plants consist of roots, stem, leaves, fruits and flowers. The conduction system in plants are…

Q: Photomicrograph (in HPO) of Hydrilla. Give an objective description of the plant cell.

A: * Hydrilla is genus of aquatic plant contain only one species called Hydrilla verticillata. * But…

Q: What are some of the biological process in which photophosphorylation plays a critical role?

A: Biological processes are processes that are crucial for all living organism to live and are composed…

Q: What can be observed in plasmolysis in plants?

A: Plasmolysis is the course of shrinkage & constriction of the cellular material ( protoplasm) of…

Q: What are plant cell vacuoles? What are their functions? What is the covering membrane of the…

A: The plant cell vacuoles are the single  membrane bound organelle that occupies the major space of…

Q: Two potted plants were kept in an oxygen free environment in transparent containers, one in total…

A: During photosynthesis in green plants, light energy is captured and used to convert water and carbon…

Q: What helps give cell walls strength in the softer plant tissues?

A: They will differentiate into three main tissue types which include the dermal, vascular, and ground…

Q: Under what environmental conditions does photorespiration “outcompete" that of the CC? Specifically,…

A: In photorespiration, loss of  CO2 takes place in mitochondria only. In the presence of O2, RuBP…

Q: Would a defoliated plant respond to photoperiodic cycle? Why?

A: Light plays an important role in the development and growth of plants. Each plant requires a…

Q: Which of the following happens in presence of toxin that causes outer chloroplast membrane to be…

A: Chloroplasts are the most prominent members of the plastid family of organelles. Plastids are…

Q: Where do C3cycle and C4 cycles occur? Which plants and which tissues? Why are they so called?

A: The photosynthesis is the process of synthesis of organic food material with the help of air, water…

Q: how does ethanol affect cell transport process?

A: The cell membrane is made of a phospholipid bilayer with proteins and cholesterol molecules…

Q: Explain what would happen if a plant cell was placed in a hypotonic environment and why (be sure to…

A: Hypotonic solution means that solution has lower solute concentration whereas hypertonic solution…

Q: What property of waxy cuticle that cover plant leaves makes the cuticle impermeable to water

A: The leaf outermost layer is the epidermis. The upper and lower epidermis are present on either side…

Q: Why are vacuoles more prominent in plants?

A: Vacuoles are the organelles that are present in both plants and animals. However this vacuoles are…

Q: What tissues of the plant provide the greatest opportunity to observe cells actively undergoing…

A: Mitosis is a type of cell division where the parental cell give rise to two daughter cells with…

Q: What is the wall resistance of plant cells? Does this resistance facilitate or make difficult the…

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Q: Under what conditions does plant tissue experience lack of oxygen? How is ATP generated from glucose…

A: Due to changing climatic conditions drought and floods have become increasingly common. Under both,…

Q: in plant physiology, How does Abscisic acid induce primary dormancy in seeds?

A: Dormancy could be a attribute gained throughout evolution to survive in adverse conditions like…

Q: Which part of the light-independent reactions would be affected if a cell could not produce the…

A: In the stroma of the chloroplast, the light independent process (also known as dark reactions or the…

Q: List and describe the different proteins that make up the light reaction thylakoid membrane

A: Photosynthesis is a process by which photosynthetic organisms uses light energy for the synthesis of…

Q: Plant Cell Physiology 1. How do peroxisomes quench the reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced or…

A: Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive chemicals formed from oxygen. Examples of ROS…

Q: Leaves of a healthy potted plant were coated with petroleum jelly. How will it affect the plant?…

A: Stomata are the microscopic pores present on the epidermal layer of the plants. However, most of the…

Q: What might happen to the contractile vacuoles in a paramecium if the organism were transferred from…

A: Paramecium is on of the fresh water protists which habitats the fresh water environments. Fresh…

Q: Plant cells placed in a hypotonic environment will remain flaccid, due to an ineffective central…

A: A hypotonic solution is a solution that has low volumes of solute than its surroundings of contents…

Q: What is the functional significance of this lateral differentiation of the thylakoid membrane…

A: Photoautotrophs are the types of living organisms that use light energy for the production of energy…

Q: Name the process by which intact plant cells lose water in the form of droplets from leaf margins.

A: Leaves are the principal lateral appendage of the vascular plant stem. It is present above ground…

Q: Why do plants need to exchange gases with the environment?

A: Introduction  In this question we will discuss about why plants need to exchange gases with…

Q: Explain what are Plant Growth Regulators

A: Important structures involved in development of plants are buds,shoots,roots,leaves and…

Q: What will the pH in the space inside the thylakoid membrane be?   A. 2   B. acidic   C. neutral…

A: Hi, Thanks For Your Question. Answer : Correct Option Is B

Plant sensory system

The plant sensory system is a sophisticated system that responds to environmental stimuli such as light,temperature, gravity, and touch. Research predicts that plant hormones and signaling mechanisms areresponsible for this regulation system in plants.