Question

What will be the effect of placing a plant cell in a hypotonic solution? A) The plant will wilt. B) The cell will shrink in size. C) The cell will remain unaffected. D) The cell will expand and become turgid.

Answer 1

D. Hypotonic means the solution is greater inside the cell than outside the cell. In plant cells, this causes the vacuoles to become turgid.

Answer 2

D) The cell will expand and become turgid.

The plant cell will basically absorb all the water by osmosis and swell, but because it has a cell wall it will become turgid.