osmosis
...own as Plasmolysis. If you put a plant cell in water, water enters by Osmosis, then swells up. However, the cell will not burst. This is due to the fact that the cell walls are made from cellulose, which is extremely strong. Eventually, the cell stops swelling, and when this point is reached, we say the cell wall is rigid. in the 0.4M, 0.6M, 0.8M and 1.0M solutions were at the bottom of the test tube, this lead me to drawing my first conclusion. The graph (see attached) shows that the potato in the 0.0M solution and in the 0.2M is hypertonic, as I said in my prediction, this means that there is a higher water potential in the distilled water and 0.2M solution than in the potato, which has a high concentration of solutes. Therefore this is why the water diffuses by osmosis down the concentration gradient from high concentration to low concentration, resulting ...