WATER POTENTIAL

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  1. 3. Water potential is denoted by the Greek symbol
  2. 5. Pressure can build up in a plant system when water enters a plant cell due to diffusion, causing a pressure to build up against the cell wall.
  3. 6. v) The stage of plasmolysis at which the first sign of shrinkage of cell contents from cell wall at corners is called ‘Incipient Plasmolysis’.
  4. 10. The diffusion of hydrophilic substances along the concentration gradient through transport proteins without involving energy expenditure.
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  1. 1. Upward movement of water through xylem against gravitational force.
  2. 2. The magnitude of lowering the water potential of a pure water due to dissolution of a solute is called
  3. 4. Glucose is prepared at the ........ by photosynthesis is converted to sucrose.
  4. 7. When a cell placed in a highly concentrated sugar or salt solution (Hypertonic solution) water from the cytoplasm first and then vacuole flows out due to exosmosis through the plasma membrane.
  5. 8. vi) At ......, incoming sugars are actively transported out of the phloem and removed as complex carbohydrates.
  6. 9. Pure water water potential