A plant cell with a water potential of -0.6 MPa is placed in a solution with a water potential of -0.8 MPa. Which of the following will occur?
Water will move out of the cell, causing plasmolysis.
Water will move into the cell, causing turgor pressure to increase.
There will be no net movement of water.
The cell will burst due to excessive water uptake.
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If water enters in a cell, the pressure exerted by its swollen protoplast is
Turgor pressure
DPD
Osmotic pressure
Imbibition
Nyctinasty and seismonasty in plants like bean and touch me not are produced due to
Reversible osmotic potential in the cells
Reversible turgor pressure in the cell of their pulvini
Due to less pressure potential in the cells
Presence of less turgidity in the cells
Which of these cells regulate the opening and closing of stomata?
Guard cells
Epidermal cells
Mesophyll cells
Xylem cells
Which one is incorrect statement?
Movement of water is expressed in terms of free energy
Free energy determines the direction by which physical and chemical changes should occur
Water potential is the sum of free energy of water molecules in pure water and in any other system
Water potential of pure water is zero
Osmotic pressure of a solution is
Greater than pure solvent
Less than pure solvent
Equal to pure solvent
Less than or greater than pure solvent
Nyctinasty and seismonasty in plants like bean and touch me not are produced due to
Reversible osmotic potential in the cells
Reversible turgor pressure in the cell of their pulvini
Due to less pressure potential in the cells
Presence of less turgidity in the cells
Water composition in a water-melon is approximately
92%
75%
50%
25%
If solute particles are added in pure water, its diffusion pressure will be
Increased
Decreased
Remain constant
Become less than zero
Water potential increases due to
Addition of solute
Evaporation
Addition of inorganic substances
Increase in pressure
Whose water potential is less than water potential of root hair during the water absorption by root hair?
Gravitational water
Soil solution
Pure water
Vacuolar sap
