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What is the isotonic point of a plant cell?
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What is the isotonic point of a plant cell? The aim of this investigation is to determine the isotonic point of a plant cell. First thing to do therefore is to establish what an isotonic point is. This is the point at which there is a balance between the concentration of water on either side of a semi-permeable membrane (see diagrams on reverse for more details). This goal could be approached in any of a number of ways, but I have chosen to perform it as explained below. I would just like to point out first that I will do two experiments on two different potatoes so that I can establish whether the isotonic point varied from one plant's cells to another's. I would ideally like to repeated each of these again so that I have a more accurate result, but due to limited time, this will not be an option....
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