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What would happen if a thin slice of sugar beet is kept in NaCl?

A
It should lose water from the cell
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B
It should become turgid
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C
It should neither absorbed water nor lose it
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D
It should absorb water from the soil solution
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Solution

The correct option is C It should lose water from the cell
Sodium chloride is osmotically active compound. Hence, cells of sugar beet slice will lose water through the process of exosmosis. When a cell is placed in a hypertonic solution it shrinks as because the water flows from lower concentration of solute to the higher concentration of solute.
So, the correct answer is option A.

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