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How the plant cell undergone plasmolysis?

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Plasmolysis occurs in walled cells when their outside surroundings, or environment, are hypertonic (with solute concentration levels are higher than the cells), causing water to diffuse out of the cell (to equal concentration levels). The lack of water makes the cytoplasm of the cell shrivel. This shriveling is accompanied by the plasma membrane slowly pulling away from the cell wall.

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the cell absorb the solution of the concentration solution which inturn make the cell increase in shape through endolysis.

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When plant cell is placed in hypertonic solution, plasmolysis happens.

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What is the difference between cytolysis and plasmolysis?

plasmolysis- is the separation of plant cell cytoplasm from the cell wall as a result of water loss.cytolysis-the bursting or rupturing of cell membrane when the cell can no longer contain the excessive inflow of water (or extracellular fluid).


What is the contraction or shrinking of the cell membrane of a plant cell in a hypertonic solution in response to the loss of water by osmosis?

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What is the shrinking of a cell called?

A plasmolysis solution is the opposite of a hypotonic solution because in a plasmolysis solution the cell will shrink due to the little amount of water outside the cell and the greater amount of water inside the cell. A plasmolysis solution only occurs in plant cells.