When salt is added to cut cucumber, the concentration of solutes outside the cucumber cells becomes higher than inside. Water moves from a region of lower solute concentration (inside the cells) to a region of higher solute concentration (outside the cells where salt was added) across the semipermeable cell membranes. This movement of water is called osmosis.
After cutting cucumber if salt is added, then water comes out due to
Asked in UPPCS Prelims 2021 · Topic: Cell (Plasma Membrane: Fluid Mosaic Model, Structure, and Functions)
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