Collect sweet potato, bottle, salt, and water. Take a bottle full of water and add salt, then put the sweet potato inside the bottle. Observe for a few days. What happens? Note your observations. How can you prove that sweet potato is also a living thing?
To prove that the sweet potato cell is living we should observe that the sweet potato becomes flaccid. Flaccid - This is when the plant has lost its turgor pressure and in the case of a sweet potato it becomes soft.