Home Â» Phagocytosis Â» Crenation. Crenation - cell shrinks by osmosis because H2O leaves cell. solution is HYPERtonic (hyper - means excess, hypo - means insuffient. Crenation (opposite of Lysis -cell swells/destroyed/hypotonic) Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page.
ARCHIVED: What is ROM? ROM is an acronym for Read-Only Memory. It refers to computer memory chips containing permanent or semi-permanent data. Unlike RAM, ROM is non-volatile; even after you turn off your computer, the contents of ROM will remain. Almost every computer comes with a small amount of ROM containing the boot firmware.
SW is an abbreviation that stands for software and HW is the abbreviation for hardware. Most of us in the computer industry are at fault here for basically creating our own language of acronyms, which make it difficult for the rest of us to follow the text or conversation.