In lab, imagine that you are given a section of the aquatic plant, Elodea, to observe. As part of your observation, you prepare a wet mount of Elodea, and add a 20% NaCl solution to your slide. What should you expect to see when you observe this slide through the microscope?

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William Perry

Biology

24 October, 03:11

In lab, imagine that you are given a section of the aquatic plant, Elodea, to observe. As part of your observation, you prepare a wet mount of Elodea, and add a 20% NaCl solution to your slide. What should you expect to see when you observe this slide through the microscope?

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Carolina Glover · Answer 1

You are expected to see the movement of the water trhough a plasmatic membrane.

Explanation:

When we put a cell in different solutions, whit different concentrations, we can observe modifications in the protoplasm. When a cell it's in the presence of a salin concentrated solution (hipertonic), the water goes out the cell trhough the plasmatic membrane and this phenomenon its called plasmolisi.