Plasmolysis, Haemolysis, Crenation

Plasmolysis:

When a living plant cell is placed or surrounded in a sugar or salt solution, a more concentrated or hypertonic solutionA hypertonic solution refers to a solution containing a higher solute concentration in comparison to the solute concentration in another solution, across a semipermeable membrane. More than the cell sap, water will be lost from the cell to the stronger solution resulting in exosmosis .

When the cell is left in the hypertonic solution for a long time, it will result in the pulling away of the cytoplasm from the cell wall, consequently, the cytoplasm will shrink and the cell wall will collapse. At this stage, we may say the cell is plasmolyzed .

Plasmolysis is the shrinking of the cytoplasm away from the cell wall when plant cells are immersed in a hypertonic solution.

Turgidity:

However, if a plant cell is placed in a hypotonic solutionHypotonic solution refers to a solution containing a lower solute concentration in comparison to the solute concentration in another solution, across a semipermeable membrane. Such a solution has a decreased solute... More , it behaves differently; water enters the cell by osmosis due to the fact that the cytoplasm solution is stronger than the water. This is called endosmosis .

As water enters