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What effect different solutions, with the same water potential, have on potato and cucumber strips (by mass).
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Jessica Rossi What effect different solutions, with the same water potential, have on potato and cucumber strips (by mass). Plan Introduction Plants in the soil have their roots in a dilute solution of various mineral ions. Sometimes, the soil they are planted in gets flooded with sea water (which has an average of 0.3 sodium chloride concentration). In these cases the roots are observed to wilt and become flaccid. In my experiment, I will simulate this situation using potato and cucumber strips, placing them in different solutions (sodium chloride, glucose and sucrose) at different molar concentrations. A substance dissolved in water is called a solute. A solvent is a liquid that is able to dissolve another substance, a solute, to form a solution. Water potential is a measure of the ability of a solution to give out water. Water potential (y) can be expressed as the sum of the solute potential...
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