Osmosis

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Osmosis: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Osmosis, Relation between Osmosis and Animal Cells & Relation between Osmosis and Plant Cells etc.

Important Questions on Osmosis

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When an animal cell is dipped in pure water, 

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Give reason: what happens to plant and animal cell when it is placed in hypertonic solution.

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Give reason: what happens to plant and animal cell when it is placed in a hypotonic solution.

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Explain the role of osmosis in living organisms?

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Difference between diffusion and osmosis.

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Without any qualitative test outside the Visking tubing, to investigate the diffusion of starch through a membrane following things can be used:

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The phenomenon of recovery of turgidity due to endosmosis of water is known as deplasmolysis or plasmolysis?

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Identify the given picture:

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Wall pressure will _____ with rising in turgidity.

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Name the process through which water enters the potato osmometer.

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Absorption of water by plant roots is an example of

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Due to plasmolysis, the plant cell

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What happens when formalin preserved Spirogyra filament is placed in a hypertonic sugar solution?

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All the following involves osmosis, except