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Explain what will happen to a plant cell if it is kept in a solution having higher water potential.

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If a plant cell is placed in a hypotonic solution, the plant cell loses water and hence turgor pressure, making the plant cell flaccid. Plants with cells in this condition wilt. Further water loss causes 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, Eventually cytorrhysis- the complete collapse of the cell wall can occur.

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