BI-391
Osmosis
Biology · Secondary 3 · Hard · Osmosis
A strip of beetroot tissue is placed in a 0.5 mol dm sucrose solution. After 20 minutes, its length decreases from 3.0 cm to 2.7 cm. What has happened to the beetroot cells?
- Cells become turgid as water enters by osmosis
- Cells become plasmolysed as water leaves by osmosis
- Cells burst as too much water enters by osmosis
- Cells remain unchanged as there is no net water movement
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