The obligate halophile halobacterium salinarum maintains a high intracellular concentration of this substance to prevent osmotic shock?
What is osmotic pressure?
Its common way to express the concentration of a solution. Its the pressure that would need to be applied to a pure solvent to keep it from osmosing into the solution through a semipermeable membrane.
The obligate halophile halobacterium salinarum maintains a high intracellular concentration of potassium(K) in order to avoid osmotic shock.
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First they minimize the size of their leaf to prevent evaporation, second they have big trunk that could hold a lot of water, and third they have this long root to search water
