If you fertilize your houseplant too often, you may find that it looks wilted even when the soil is wet. Explain what has happened in terms of water potential?

Water moved out of the cells of the houseplant into the extracellular solution because they (plant cells) have a high water potential (Ψ) than the extracellular environment.

Please find the explanation below

Explanation:

In biology, water potential, denoted by Ψ, refers to the ability of water to move freely in a system. Based on this definition, a hypertonic solution (solution with higher solute concentration) will have a low Ψ while a hypotonic solution (solution with low solute concentration) will have a high Ψ.

According to this question, if a houseplant is fertilized too often, it will increase the concentration of solute in the soil (extracellular environment of the plant cells) i.e. the fertilizer will make the extracellular solution HYPERTONIC. Because the cells of the houseplant are hypotonic to the soil solution i.e. now has a high Ψ in comparison with the soil solution, water will move from the cells of the plant to the soil solution (extracellular) via the cell membrane (semi-permeable membrane) in a process called OSMOSIS.

NOTE: Water moves from a solution with high Ψ to a solution with low Ψ. This is what propels the movement of water from the cell with a high water potential to the exterior of the cell with a low water potential (caused by frequent addition of fertilizer). Overall, the houseplant will look WILTED even if the soil is wet.

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"-the movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and back to the environment

-carbon is the essential component of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates (which make up all organisms)

-carbon exists in air, water, and living organisms

-producers convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into carbohydrates during photosynthesis

-bacteria in the atmosphere cycles through the system in filtration units

-in cellular respiration, carbon is released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide

-some carbon is stored in limestone (forming one of the largest "carbon sinks" on earth)

-largest carbon reservoir on earth= limestone

-carbon stored in the bodies of organisms as fat, oils, or other molecules may be released into the soil or air when the organism dies

-this may form deposits of coal, oil, or natural gas (fossil fuels, which increased the atmospheric carbon dioxide)

-fossil fuels store carbon left over from bodies of organisms that died millions of years ago

-they are located in the surface of earth, deep within the earth and beneath the ocean floor."    

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