Question

Analogous Scenario 6.2: While accomplishing this worksheet, you felt your stomach rumbling. Fortunately there is a pack of instant cup noodles in your kitchen cabinet. You poured boiling water in the cup with noodles and dried vegetables and covered it for about 10 minutes. As soon as you removed the cover, you noticed that the noodles and the vegetables have expanded and softened.

1. What is the analogous movement at the cellular level?
2. Explain what happened to the noodles and dried vegetables and relate it to the mechanism that occurs at the cellular level?

Answer 1

1) forming of edema can be analogous movement like that in noodles and vegetables, provided there is not much ion difference but there is huge ECF

2)Due to high temperature of water, it may cause lesion in cell membrane or cell wall of vegetables, and there is large quantity of water outside, so it will definitely go in, and water goes in causes expansion of vegetables, and softening as well, because of water in any matter causes increased spacing between the particles of that substaowhich will reduce the rigidity of that substance.