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Osmosis, or diffusion of water across a membrane, is the process that's happening when a cell's cytoplasm shrinks due to water loss. The process by which a plant cell's cytoplasm shrinks due to water loss is called plasmolysis
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∙ 12y agoCrenation is the shrinkage of the cell due to water loss. Plasmolysis is the shrinking of the cell membrane away from the cell wall in plant cells.
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What kind of solution causes the cell to shrink?
salt water. this will cause the cell to lose it's water osmotically resulting in it becoming plasmolysedA hypertonic solution
What happens to the pressure inside a cell that is placed in a hypertonic solution?
The pressure inside a cell that is placed in a hypertonic solution will decrease causing the cell to shrivel due to water loss
Would a cell placed in syrup probably gain or lose water?
A cell placed in syrup will shrink due to water loss. Since a syrup is hypertonic to a cell the water inside will diffuse out toward the higher solute concentration.
What is plasmolesis?
i think the person is foolish who have asked this question because he dont even knows the correct spelling of the word plasmolysis so i dont think that he should be given the answer of this question
What will happen if you put onion skin cell into 10 percent sugar solution?
Osmosis takes place. The onion cell will turn flaccid due to the water loss.
What is shrinking of a red blood cell due to water loss?
Crenation
What is plasmoysis?
The shrinking of protoplasm away from the cell wall of a plant or bacterium due to water loss from osmosis, thereby resulting in gaps between the cell wall and cell membrane.
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.
What is it called when a red blood cell bursts from a hypotonic solution?
When cell is placed in a hypertonic solution water moves out, first from cytoplasm and then from vacuole. Cell membrane shrinks away from the cell wall. This is known as plasmolysis. Plasmolysis is when a protoplast of a plant cell starts to shrink due to water loss from the cell. This causes gaps between the cell wall and cell membrane.
What does prolonged plasmolysis do to plant cell?
it causes the cell to shrink due to the loss of water.
What kind of solution causes the cell to shrink?
salt water. this will cause the cell to lose it's water osmotically resulting in it becoming plasmolysedA hypertonic solution
What happens to the pressure inside a cell that is placed in a hypertonic solution?
The pressure inside a cell that is placed in a hypertonic solution will decrease causing the cell to shrivel due to water loss
What solution does crenation occur in?
Crenation is the loss of water from an animal cell due to osmosis. Lysis is the rupture of the cell wall due to too much water moving into an animal cell due to osmosis. Both crenation and lysis have drastic effects on the animal cell. Crenation is the equivalent of flaccid plant cells and lysis is the equivalent of turgid for plant cells. The key difference between lysis and turgid is that plants have a cellulose cell wall so do not rupture or burst the cell wall like animal cells with lysis do.
Would a cell placed in syrup probably gain or lose water?
A cell placed in syrup will shrink due to water loss. Since a syrup is hypertonic to a cell the water inside will diffuse out toward the higher solute concentration.
What is plasmolysis and why is it important to plant cells?
Plasmolysis refers to the contraction of the protoplast of a plant cell as a result of loss of water from the cell. The plasma membrane moves away from the cell wall due to loss of water through osmosis. Osmosis on its part, is the movement of water molecules from a region of high water potential to a region of lower water potential through selectively permeable membrane.
Some plant cells were placed in a concentrated sugar solution. Their cytoplasm and cell membranes shrank and pulled away from the cell walls. What is the term for this condition?
You are seeing what is called dehydration due to the loss of water in the cells. Adding salt instead of sugar will due the same thing. And salt will actually cause a total loss of water from the cells.
What is plasmoptysis?
Plasmolysis is the contraction of the protoplast of a plant cell due to water loss. Plasmoptysis on the other hand, is the rupture of the cell wall which causes the protoplasm to burst.
