Explain why limp celery becomes crisp and the skin of your fingertips wrinkles when placed in water?

The celery becomes crisp because the water is absorbed into it, increasing the intercellular pressure.





The outer layer of skin on your hands absorbs the water also, increasing in size. But the skin has no place to expand to. As it swells in size and the surface area increases, wrinkling is the result.


.Explain why limp celery becomes crisp and the skin of your fingertips wrinkles when placed in water?
The celery gets crisp because it has water in it again plumping it up. Think of a balloon, no air, limp, air goes in, balloon goes taught.





Skin wrinkles because it does not have to contain the water since it is immersed in water. It becomes like a pourous curtain that rustles in the wind. Take away the water source and the skin closes up again to hold in the water needed by the body.Explain why limp celery becomes crisp and the skin of your fingertips wrinkles when placed in water?
I don't know. Hmm, maybe it is because we have enough liquid inside of us, so we wrinkle to prevent ourselves from absorbing me. Not to mention different kinds of cells. Our skin cells are soft and celery is hard. Hmm...I don't really like biology...
Dang.. We just had this question last semester in Bio... I think it's something with the acids or something like that...