Plant Cell Biology
These cells are in a hypertonic solution and are therefore plasmolysed.
What do you expect to happen if the cells are placed in a hypotonic solution?
Click on the picture to see the effect of adding distilled water to the onion cells.
Plasmolysis
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Plasmolysis
Red onion epidermal peel @ 400x