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A plastic container fill of water was stoppered using a piece of stem obtained from a young maize plant whose bark had been peeled off. The next day it was noted that the stopper closed the container very tightly. Explain.
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A plastic container fill of water was stoppered using a piece of stem obtained from a young maize plant whose bark had been peeled off. The next day it was noted that the stopper closed the container very tightly. Explain.
State the observation made when a similar experiment was set up but using boiled piece of maize stem obtained from a young maize plant whose bark had been peeled off.
Explain the observation stated in (2) above.
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Vacuole of the cortical/inner cells of the stem was hypertonic to the water; the inners/cortical cells absorbed water by osmosis; and became turgid increasing in size closing the container very tightly;
stem stopper remains the same/ does not close the container very tightly;
Boiling destroys the cell membrane of the stem cells preventing osmosis from occurring;
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