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Which is the first stage of germination?
Imbibition
What are the applications of imbibition to cellular activities in the body?
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What causes water to travel from a plant's roots to its stems?
Imbibition
What causes water to travel from a plants roots to its stem?
Imbibition
What is the conclusion of the imbibition?
Imbibition is the process where seeds absorb water to initiate germination. This process helps in softening the seed coat, triggering metabolic activities, and allowing the seedling to emerge from the seed.
What are the factors which affect the imbibition process?
cooking of rice, frying fish
Why is imbibition does not deal with living cells directly?
Imbibition deals with the displacement of fluids primarily by colloidal structures. The degree of displacement is dependent on the matrix structure of the colloid and the mutual affinity with the liquid. Germination of plant seeds is a good example of imbibition, but doesn't deal with living cells directly. In living human cells, imbibition by definition has limited occurrence with the best example being a skin graft. The grafted skin takes in oxygen and nutrients by way of imbibition until normal vascular pathways can be established. Other transport methods involving membrane permeability are more pertinent to cellular structures within the human body. Hope this helps.
Does agar exhibits syneresis and imbibition?
Agar does not exhibit syneresis (syneresis is the expulsion of liquid from a gel) but it can imbibe water (imbibition is the process of absorbing water). Agar is commonly used as a solidifying agent in microbiology and food industries due to its ability to absorb water and form a gel.
What is the first stage of plant germination?
The first stage of plant germination is seed imbibition, which is when the seed absorbs water and swells up. This process begins the activation of enzymes that break down stored nutrients in the seed to provide energy for the germinating seedling.
Where does water enter into a bean?
Germination of the seed causes changes within the seed coat which allows for massive absorption of water via imbibition.
How do you calculate the imbibition pressure of dry seeds?
(final seed-initial gram of the seed)/initial gram o the seed x 100%
Why does the object in the water becomes bigger?
It undergoes imbibition if it is hydrophilic in nature but if its not it simply looks bigger due to refraction of light.and its refracted to our eyes,
