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Water Potential (SL IB Biology)

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What will happen to a plant cell placed in a hypotonic solution?

  • It will burst

  • It will swell with water and become turgid

  • Nothing will happen

  • It will shrink and shrivel and become flaccid

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The diagram below shows red blood cells that have been bathed in solutions of different solute concentration.

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Which row of the table correctly describes the three solutions that these red blood cells have been bathed in?

  I II III
A. Isotonic Hypotonic Isotonic
B. Isotonic Hypertonic Hypotonic
C. Isotonic Hypotonic Hypertonic
D. Hypertonic Hypotonic Isotonic

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    The graph below shows the outcome of an experiment investigating the change in mass of potato chips placed in sucrose solutions of different concentrations. 

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    Which of the following statements about the graph is not correct? 

    • The point where the line crosses the X axis is called the isotonic solute concentration. 

    • There is not a significant difference between the change in mass values at every solute concentration.

    • The least osmosis took place when the sucrose solution was 1.0 mol dm3.

    • The bigger the error bars, the lower the confidence in the reliability of the data. 

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    When investigating osmosis in plant tissue any changes to mass and length are recorded over a period of time.

    What are the most appropriate units of measurement for mass and length during this investigation?

    • kg and cm

    • g and cm

    • g and mm

    • kg and mm

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    An experiment to calculate the water potential of potato cells was performed using the following protocol:

    1. Dice potato into 1cm3 cubes.
    2. Add potato cubes to 6 test tubes, each containing solution with a different sucrose concentration.
    3. Wait 12 hours.
    4. Weigh the cubes from each test tube and plot a graph. 

    The mean mass of the potato cubes was 2.50 g before being added to the solution, and the graph shows the masses of the potato cubes after the experiment. 1-3-h-q4-paper-1

    Which concentration of sucrose matches the water potential of the potato cells?

    • 0.00 mol dm-3

    • 0.12 mol dm-3

    • 0.31 mol dm-3

    • 0.66 mol dm-3

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