BIOL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Plasmolysis, Facilitated Diffusion, Plant Cell

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For an animal to survive in a hypotonic or hypertonic environment, it must have a way to prevent excessive or excessive loss of water, the osmoregulation control of water balance. Water balance issues are different for the cells of plants, prokaryotes, and fungi because of their cell walls. A plant cell immersed in an isotonic solution is flaccid (limp). A plant cell is turgid (very firm) which is the healthy state for most plant cell, in a hypotonic environment, to become turgid , the plant cell needs a net inflow of water. Although the somewhat elastic cell wall expands a bit, the pressure it exert prevents the cell from taking in too much water and bursting, as an animal cell would in a hypotonic environment. Plants that are not woody, such as most houseplants, depend on their turgid cells for mechanical support. Hypertonic environment a plant cell is not better off than an animal cell.

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