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Christ the King School: Centre 34675 An Investigation into the water relations of plant tissue Name: Josh Bladen 11D Introduction: For my year 10 Biology coursework, I was asked to investigate Osmosis, and it's effect on foodstuffs, namely potatoes. Osmosis is the movement of water molecules from an area of high concentration in a dilute solution to an area of low concentration in a concentrated solution, through a partially permeable membrane such as a cell membrane. The problem I have been asked to investigate is a farmer's crop of standard white potatoes, on low level land near to the coast. I have been asked to show how much sea water flooding the crop can take before irreparable damage is done to the crop and it becomes unsellable. This damage would be caused by osmosis, as I have outlined above. Because the sea water is salty, it has less water in it than...

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