What would happen to a plant cell if it were placed in a hypertonic solution?
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In a hypertonic solution the water inside the cell leaves, causing the cell to shrivel.  Since a plant cell has a cell wall, the cytoplasm and plasma membrane will shrink away from the cell wall (called plasmolysis).  This decrease in turgor pressure means the plant will wilt.
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No.  Only in plant cells.
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Cell walls surround the cell outside of the plasma membrane.  When water flows into the cell by osmosis, the cell swells until its membrane builds up pressure against the cell wall.  The cell wall prevents the cell from swelling and bursting in a hypotonic solution.
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(m)\n\nCloning of Plant Cells and Manipulation of Plant Genes\nPlant cells exhibit a variety of characteristics that distinguish them from animal cells. These characteristics include the presence of a large central vacuole and a cell wall, and the absence of entioles, which play a role in mitosis, meiosis, and cell division. Along with these physical differences, another factor distinguishes plant cells from animal cells, which is of great significance to the scientist interested in biotechnology: Many varieties of full-grown adult plants can regenerate from single, modified plant cells called protoplasts - plant cells whose cell walls have been removed by enzymatic digestion. More specifically, when some species of plant cells are subjected to the removal of the cell wall by enzymatic treatment, they respond by synthesizing a new cell wall and eventually undergoing a series of cell divisions and developmental processes that result in the formation of a new adult plant. That adult plant can be said to have been cloned from a single cell of a parent plant. \nPlants that can be cloned with relative ease include carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, petunias, and cabbage, to name only a few. The capability to grow a whole plant from a single cell means that researchers can engage in the genetic manipulation of the cell, let the cell develop into a completely mature plant, and examine the whole spectrum of physical and growth effects of the genetic manipulation within a relatively short period of time. Such a process is far more straightforward than the parallel process in animal cells, which cannot be cloned into full-grown adults. Therefore, the results of any genetic manipulation are usually easier to examine in plants than in animals.
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In biology, turgor pressure or turgidity is the pressure of the cell contents against the cell wall, in plant cells, determined by the water content of the vacuole, resulting from osmotic pressure. i.e. the hydrostatic pressure produced by a solution in a space divided by a semipermeable membrane due to a differential in the concentration of solute.\n\n\n[edit] Mechanism\nWhen a cell is in a hypotonic environment, water flows across the cell membrane into the cell, causing it to expand due to osmotic pressure. In plant cells, water enters the cell until the inside and outside water potential is equal, however, the cell wall prevents the cell from bursting, resulting in pressure on the cell wall from within.\n\nThe pressure of each cell wall against its neighbour results in stiffness that allows the plant to stay upright. Cells not adapted to hypotonic environments will burst due to the inflow of water if they have no strong membrane or cell wall.\n\nThe opposite condition in a plant cell, resulting from immersion in a hypertonic environment, is plasmolysis. Turgor pressure is usually with plant cells.
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The answer you are looking for is in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum.  I'm too tired to give a full answer now so I will come back to this.\n\nIt basically works on negative pressure.  Air is the driest in the continuum and pulls water through the stomates from the xylem (not the phloem) up the stem from the roots, from the soil.\n\nI'll come back later.
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When water enters the cell..it must be regulated or the cell will...em...explode...these vacuoles help the paramecium to send out extra water...
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In a hypotonic solution, water travels into the cell.  This is because there is a higher water to solute ratio outside the cell then inside.  In natures effort to keep things at equilibrium, water will travel to areas of lower concentration (in this case it travels into the cell).  Depending on how much higher the concentration is in the solution, the cell may become too full so that it bursts (lysis), or it may just swell and become larger.\n\nHypertonic is the opposite, and water will travel out of the cell causing it to shrivel.
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Some pros\n\nCells with a cell wall are stronger \nCells can withtsand far greater degrees of positive osmotic pressure (higher concentrations of water outside of the cell).\nWhen cells die they can still serve a purpose within the organism by contributing to structural rigidity or fluid transport (e.g. xylum in plants)\n\nSome cons\nCells with cell walls are limited in size by the size of the cell wall\nIn situations of high negative osmotic pressure the cell membrane can detatch from the cell wall and is often ruptured, killing the cell\nCells with cell walls are very rarely able to move unless they have specialist attatchments like flagella
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cell walls give structure.
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Hyperhydricity, or vitrification, is a physiological malformation affecting tissue culture-generated plants. This malformation is associated with excessive hydration and poor lignification and results in poor regeneration of plants.
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cellulose is pretty insoluble in water hence its application as a structural component in plants. Apparently it is soluble in ethylene diamine/salt systems (1). It also dissolves in amine oxide (2)
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The water potential of pure water is defined as 0. Adding any solute makes the water potential negative. The more solute that is added, the more negative the water potential will become.\nIn osmosis, water moves from a less negative to a more negative water potential. Increasing the sucrose concentration in a tuber cell ought to increase the uptake of water, but it is not that simple because the water potential of plant cells depends upon both the solute concentration and the pressure exerted by the cell wall.\nAs the cell absorbs water, the pressure exerted by the wall increases. Eventually it will prevent the uptake of any more water and the cell will be turgid and have a water potential of 0.
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Membranes become brittle and fragile when it is frozen. This makes it easier to break up the plasma membrane of the beet root cell. It you constantly heat it and cool it, the membrane will eventually break open.
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first off, it's Homeostasis.\n\nThe other guy is right, a cell is never at perfect equilibrium, however, on the two extreme ends, a cell could Lise (explode) with too much water(hypertonic to it's environment, so water enters the cell), or sort of shrivel up with not enough water (hypotonic to it's environment, so water leaves the cell)
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Water travels through a network of 'veins' through out the plant. The cells are re-hydrated which causes them to expand like a balloon. Once the cells are all filled to capacity, they rest on each other. The cell membranes contain cellulose that helps them stand erect when fully hydrated.
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Given that water in an hypotonic environment would tend to enter the cell, causing it to swell, it would constitute an expanding force aiding cell´s growing. Think of a baloon when you blow air into it: it kindda grows.