1. Tom was really excited about growing his crops, and decided to give them 100
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1. Tom was really excited about growing his crops, and decided to give them 100 times more than the recommended amount of fertilizers thinking this would provide abundant nutrients and make them grow faster. What do you think is going to happen? Explain this in relationship with water balance in plant cells.
2. Jill went out for a ride on her boat. After taking a good nap, she became very thirsty but found out that she didn’t bring any water with her. So she decided to drink the sea water since the water looked so clear and clean. What will happen to Jill? Explain in detail and apply what we learned about membranes.
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1---While fertilizers are good for plants but excessive use of fertilizers have an adverse effect which happened in this case. It may cause ROOT BURN which is a condition where roots of the plants suffer damage.roots may not be able to carry water to the plant which results in death of plant.
Excessive fertilizer that washes into storm drains eventually into water bodies causes Water Pollution.They have negative effect on fish and other water bodies.Algae feeds off of the nutrients in fertilizers using up oxygen which fish and other animals need.
2--Drinking sea water can have significant negative effect rather quickly.sudden severe Diarrhea is possible as well as more frequent urinationand headache.It may even lead to kidney failure and in certain condition lead to death also.
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