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An experiment was set-up as shown below and left for one hour.

      

An experiment was set-up as shown below and left for one hour.

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(a) State the expected result at the end of one hour

(b) Explain the observations made in this experiment

  

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Martin
(a) The potato cup will be filled with solution;

(b) The solution in the potato cells is hypertonic to the water; hence water moves into the cell by osmosis; this makes the solution in the neighbouring cells to be hypertonic to the outer cells; hence water moves from cell to cell until it eventually enters the potato cup
marto answered the question on October 3, 2019 at 10:14


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