Question

Choose the correct answers from the alternatives given :
If a potato tuber is placed in a concentrated sugar solution

• A. Nothing would happen
• B. It would die
• C. It would become limp due to loss of water from its cells
• D. It would become turgid by absorbing water from sugar solution

Answer 1

The correct option is C It would become limp due to loss of water from its cells

Osmosis is the movement of solvent from its higher concentration to its lower concentration across a semipermeable membrane. When the potato tuber is placed in a concentrated sugar solution, then the water in the potato tuber cells will move out to dilute the concentrated sugar solution. The potato will become limp due to loss of water from the cells during this process.

So the correct answer is "It would become limp due to loss of water from its cells".