Biology 0610 · IGCSE · Osmosis

Osmosis — practice question

Rhabdostyla is a unicellular organism with neither a cell wall nor chlorophyll.
(a)[3]

Name: the gas released by Rhabdostyla the process that releases the gas the way the gas is removed

(b)[3]

Explain, using the term water potential, why Rhabdostyla needs to get rid of excess water.

(c)[3]

Explain the results shown in Fig. 4.2.

(d)[3]

Suggest why single-celled organisms with cell walls do not have contractile vacuoles.

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