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A plant cell with 0.5% concetration of s...

A plant cell with 0.5% concetration of salt in its cell sap is palced in a solution with 5% concentration of salt answer the following :
(i)What will happen to the cell?
(ii) How will you describe the concentration of the outside solution?
(iii) What changes ar e required to bring back the normalcy of the cell ?

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(i) The cell will be plasmolysed due to exosmosis
(ii) The concentration of outside solution is hydpertonic
(iii) A plasmolysed cell can be brought back to normal by placing it in a hypootnic soluton .The phenomeneon is called deplasmolysis
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