9700/11 Biology May Jun 2012 Online Test | Cambridge AS and A Level MCQ
Halophytes are plants that can survive in regions where they are regularly exposed to sea water. Sea water has a water potential of approximately –2500kPa.
What adaptations would you expect halophytes to show?
1 root hair cells that maintain a more negative water potential than sea water
2 root hair cells that accumulate salts and other solutes
3 stomata that are open most of the time