Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PLASMOLYSIS
PLASMOLYSIS
Definitions of PLASMOLYSIS
- (biology) the shrinking of protoplasm away from the cell wall of a plant or bacterium due to water loss
Number of letters
11
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using PLASMOLYSIS in a Sentence
- Through observation of plasmolysis and deplasmolysis, it is possible to determine the tonicity of the cell's environment as well as the rate solute molecules cross the cellular membrane.
- Plasmolysis is the term which describes plant cells when the cytoplasm shrinks from the cell wall in a hypertonic environment.
- The cells often take on the appearance of a pincushion, and the plasmodesmata almost cease to function because they become constricted, a condition known as plasmolysis.
- Among the phenomena he investigated were nerve compression, plasmolysis in cartilage cells, the electrical conductivity of plasma during coagulation, intestinal respiration in Misgurnus fossilis, respiration in certain gastropod genera (Limax, Helix, Planorbis, Lymnaea), functional particularities of the silk glands of the silkworm and the effect of light upon planarians.
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