EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Plasmolysis is the situation in which cells lose water in a hypertonic solution. If a plant cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, the plant cell loses water and hence, cell shrinks or contracts and making the protoplasm of the cell away from the cell wall.

Detailed explanation-2: -A cell that is placed in a hypertonic solution (a solution that contains a higher concentration of dissolved solutes compared to the intracellular fluid of the cell) will lose water. This occurs because water flows into solutions with higher solute concentrations in order to try to reduce the concentration gradient.

Detailed explanation-3: -A hypertonic solution is a particular type of solution that has a greater concentration of solutes on the outside of a cell when compared with the inside of a cell.

Detailed explanation-4: -If a cell is in a hypertonic solution, the solution has a lower water concentration than the cell cytosol, and water moves out of the cell until both solutions are isotonic. Cells placed in a hypotonic solution will take in water across their membranes until both the external solution and the cytosol are isotonic.