What property of the waxy cuticles that cover plant leaves makes the cuticles impermeable to water?

Q: What are some other biological examples of solutes affecting water potential and therefore movement…

A: The energy required to move an infinitesimal quantity of water from a sample to a reference pool of…

Q: How does a lizard control it's membrane fluidity on a scorching day ?

A: Poikilothermic organisms or cold-blooded organisms cannot maintain their internal body temperature…

Q: Which element is responsible for maintaining turgor in cells?

A: Introduction  Turgor pressure: it is the pressure created by the water on the walls of the plasma…

Q: An earthworm prefers moist soil. Why does this animal die if it driesout on a sidewalk?

A: Earthworm is a reddish brown terrestrial invertebrate that inhabits the upper layer of the moist…

Q: What polysaccharide is the primary component of plant cell walls?

A: Polysaccharides are made up of saccharide or sugar units. Polysaccharides are also called…

Q: What is the function of this pigment?

A: The Eye is shaped like a round ball, with a slight bulge at the front. The eye has three main…

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: If you buy cut flowers, why might the florist recommend cutting the stems underwater and then…

A: Flowering plants can survive for some days in the vase as every plant has two main components of the…

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

A: If a solution or environment that surrounds a cell possesses less dissolved solute and excess water…

Q: What is loss of water from injured parts of a plant?

A: Loss of water from plants can occur due to various reasons naturally like in transpiration water is…

Q: Q6: select all correct choices that apply

A: Arthropoda is the largest phylum of the animal kingdom. Out of all the known species of the the…

Q: What is Pinocytosis?

A: Cells are the smallest living units of organisms. All cells have three things in common. All cells…

Q: How do you think the root hairs aid in the absórbanme of water ?

A: Introduction The Roots Of Vascular Plants Are Modified Organs That Provide Anchoring For The Plant…

Q: What does the evaporation of water molecule from the cell of leaf creates?

A: Transpiration: It is the process of water loss in form of water vapours from aerial part of plants…

Q: Plant leaves contain openings called stomata, which allow the diffusion of ?

A: Stomata are present in epidermis of  leaves .Stomata consists of guard cell and stomatal pores.90%…

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: What changes to the structure of a cell membrane will increase the cell’s resistance to mechanical…

A: The plasma membrane is a lipid layer that is selectively permeable. It remains in contact with a…

Q: What pressure is responsible for movement of water in the upward direction of the root.

A: Plants are the autotrophs and primary producers in the food chain. Plants leaves contain…

Q: Name the process by which water enters the root hairs.

A: Osmotic pressure is the hydrostatic tension exerted by a solution in an area separated by a…

Q: A. Does the liquid surrounding this plant cell have a higher or lower concentration of water? B.…

A: Osmosis is the movement of water through a semi permeable membrane from a less concentrated solution…

Q: Plants often produce waxes on the surface of their leaves to prevent dehydration and protect against…

A: Plants are organisms with eukaryotic cells having cell walls and are capable of synthesizing their…

Q: Why the leaves of touch me not plant droop down on slight touching?

A: Mimosa pudica is a plant species, which is called “touch me not” plant. It belongs to the family…

Q: What is the function of coated vesicles

A: The coated vesicles originate from the cell membrane by self-assembly of coat proteins, leading to…

Q: Name the phenomenon by which living or dead plant cells absorb water by surface attraction.

A: The plants have the vascular system through which the plants are able to absorb water from their…

Q: LEAF PIGMENTS

A: Introduction Plants produce a significantly greater range of pigment compounds than animals. Plants,…

Q: Why are the stone canal and madreporite hard while the rest of the water vascular system is soft?

A: Echinoderms like sea stars and sea urchins utilise water vascular system which is a hydraulic system…

Q: What are exchange of small mol-ecules (such as ATP)

A: The development of substances because of arbitrary warm atomic movement semipermeable: a kind of…

Q: What is the function of compounds glands?

A: Step 1 Compound glands are a gland that constitutes of a branching system of ducts that combine and…

Q: Difference between porins and aquaporins?

A: The channels are known to serve the function of transportation of the ions, molecules within the…

Q: What condition do plant cells prefer (hypotonic/isotonic/hypertonic)?

A: Answer- Hypertonic environment. Plant cells prefer hypertonic environment that is the salt…

Q: Choose the correct route of water transfer through the cell wall of root hair , cell membrane of…

A: In plants, the roots area unit the organs of a plant that area unit modified to provide mooring to…

Q: What are the modes of excretion in plants?

A: Excretion is the process of eliminating the metabolic wastes and excess water from the body of an…

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: Whyare sticky ends important?

A: DNA Cloning is a molecular technique involved in synthesizing identical copies of DNA . This was…

Q: What are the methods used by plants to get rid of excreatory products?

A: Carbon dioxide, water vapour and oxygen are the waste products of a plant. Oxygen is a waste product…

Q: How come c) is the answer? Wouldn't the fresh water be a hypertonic solution because it would allow…

A: Yes,Option (C) is perfectly correct. Firstly you should understand the concept of concentration.…

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

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Q: What would be the effect of varying salinity levels to the opercular movement of freshwater milkfish

A: The color of the meat of fish is white which is why it is called milkfish. The total amount of salts…

Q: How can you turn a simple columnar epithelium into a water barrier?

A: Simple columnar epithelial tissue is a single layered with long epithelial cells and are normally…

Q: What force drives water into the leaves of a tre

A: Root pressure provides a force, which pushes water up the stem, but it is not enough to account for…

Q: How does this information relate to the osmolarity of the potato tissue?

A: Osmolarity is defined as the number of moles of solute present in 1 litre of solution. When a…

Q: What is the difference between Stratified squamous and Stratified columnar?

A: A stratified epithelium is a type of epithelial tissue, which consists of two or more cell layers.…

Q: If the potato is allowed to dehydrate by sitting in open air, would the potato cells be more likely…

A: Potatoes are the tubers that grow on the plant Solanum tuberosum. It is typically composed of 2%…

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…