Which Statement About Turgor Pressure Would Be Marked Wrong on an Exam

question 22

Multiple Choice

Which statement about turgor pressure would be marked wrong on an exam?

• A)It occurs in an organism with cell walls when placed into a hypertonic environment.
• B)It is necessary to keep plants from wilting.
• C)It is the force of water against the inside of the cell wall.
• D)It is maintained by osmosis.
• E)It occurs in an organism with cell walls when placed into a hypotonic environment.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the statistics of observed data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all values by the number of values.

Population Standard Error

A measure of the dispersion of sample means around the population mean.

Confidence Interval

Values range, derived from the examination of a sample, expected to enfold the value of a concealed population parameter.