i dont understand how alcohols make the tonoplast more permeable

Subject: i dont understand how alcohols make the tonoplast more permeable

Date: Sat Jan 20 08:52:15 2001
Posted by mireille
Grade level: 10-12 School: North London School
City: london State/Province: No state entered. Country: uk
Area of science: Biochemistry
ID: 979998735.Bc

Message:


when you  put beetroot in differnt concentrations of alcohol, the higher 
the concentration the more anthocyanin which leaks out. i know that 
proteins can be denatured by heat, can they also be denatured by alcohol? 
or is it simply that the phospholipids dissolve in the alcohol.

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