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    Plas Moly Sis

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    Plasmolysis occurs when a plant cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, causing it to lose water through exosmosis. This loss of water causes the cell to shrink and peel away from the cell wall, leaving a gap that fills with the hypertonic solution. If water loss continues, the cell wall can completely collapse. Plasmolysis can be reversed by placing the cell in a hypotonic solution, causing water to re-enter the cell. It typically only occurs under extreme conditions in the laboratory.

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    Plasmolysis occurs when a plant cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, causing it to lose water through exosmosis. This loss of water causes the cell to shrink and peel away from the cell wall, leaving a gap that fills with the hypertonic solution. If water loss continues, the cell wall can completely collapse. Plasmolysis can be reversed by placing the cell in a hypotonic solution, causing water to re-enter the cell. It typically only occurs under extreme conditions in the laboratory.

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    Plasmolysis occurs when a plant cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, causing it to lose water through exosmosis. This loss of water causes the cell to shrink and peel away from the cell wall, leaving a gap that fills with the hypertonic solution. If water loss continues, the cell wall can completely collapse. Plasmolysis can be reversed by placing the cell in a hypotonic solution, causing water to re-enter the cell. It typically only occurs under extreme conditions in the laboratory.

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    Plasmolysis occurs when a plant cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, causing it to lose water through exosmosis. This loss of water causes the cell to shrink and peel away from the cell wall, leaving a gap that fills with the hypertonic solution. If water loss continues, the cell wall can completely collapse. Plasmolysis can be reversed by placing the cell in a hypotonic solution, causing water to re-enter the cell. It typically only occurs under extreme conditions in the laboratory.

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    Plasmolysis[edit]

    Plant cell under different environments

    If a plant cell is placed in


    a hypertonic solution, the plant cell loses
    water and hence turgor pressure by
    plasmolysis: pressure decreases to the point
    where the protoplasm of the cell peels away from the cell wall, leaving gaps between the cell wall
    and the membrane and making the plant cell shrink and crumple. A continued decrease in pressure
    eventually leads to cytorrhysis the complete collapse of the cell wall. Plants with cells in this
    condition wilt. After plasmolysis the gap between the cell wall and the cell membrane in a plant cell is
    filled with hypertonic solution. This is because as the solution surrounding the cell is
    hypertonic, exosmosis takes place and the space between the cell wall and cytoplasm is filled with
    solutes, as most of the water drains away and hence the concentration inside the cell becomes more
    hypertonic. There are some mechanisms in plants to prevent excess water loss in the same way as
    excess water gain. Plasmolysis can be reversed if the cell is placed in
    a hypotonicsolution. Stomata help keep water in the plant so it does not dry out. Wax also keeps
    water in the plant. The equivalent process in animal cells is called crenation.
    The liquid content of the cell leaks out due to exosmosis. The cell collapses, and the cell membrane
    pulls away from the cell wall (in plants). Most animal cells consist of only a phospholipid
    bilayer (plasma membrane) and not a cell wall, therefore shrinking up under such conditions.
    Plasmolysis only occurs in extreme conditions and rarely happens in nature. It is induced in the
    laboratory by immersing cells in strong saline or sugar (sucrose) solutions to cause exosmosis, often
    using Elodea plants or onion epidermal cells, which have colored cell sap so that the process is
    clearly visible. Methylene blue can be used to stain plant cells.
    Plasmolysis is mainly known as shrinking of cell membrane in hypertonic solution and great
    pressure.
    Plasmolysis can be of two types, either concave plasmolysis or convex plasmolysis. Convex
    plasmolysis is always irreversible while concave plasmolysis is usually reversible. [3]During concave
    plasmolysis, the plasma membrane and the enclosed protoplast partially shrinks from the cell wall
    due to half-spherical, inwarding curving pockets forming between the plasma membrane and the cell
    wall. During convex plasmolysis, the plasma membrane and the enclosed protoplast shrinks
    completely from the cell wall, with the plasma membrane's ends in a symmetrically, spherically
    curved pattern.[4]

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