Explain what happens when plant cells have to much or too little water?

Question

Explain what happens when plant cells have to much or too little water?

Answer 1

A Plant cell prefers to be in a hypotonic environment.

this means there is a higher concentration of water outside the cell. Through diffusion, the movement of water across a semipermiable membrane, water enters the cell and makes it turgid or stiff because of the pressure on the cell wall.  The pressure in a plant cell is called turgor pressure. this is why plans are able to stay stiff.

plants usually like large amounts of water

unless they start to get root rot.

when a plant cell is in an isotoic environment (same concentration of water on both sides of the membrane) the cell becomes flaccid and un stiff.

this is why a plant wilts

last when a plant cell is put in a hypertonic environment ( low concentration of water on the outside) the water leaves the cell and the plasma membrane will actually seperate from the inside of the cell wall.

so in short

plant cells like to have i high concentration of water

if there are regular or low levels of water, then the plant will wilt.

Answer 2

The plant, I'm pretty sure, would be dead either way. That's why there's the process of diffusion, or, in this case, osmosis (which is the movementt of water molecules from an area of high concentratiion of molecules to an are of a lower concentration of molecules) to make sure that  stuff like that doesn't happen. So, yeah, I'm pretty sure that the thing would die.

Answer 3

they either shrink or swell

death could result with both if for to long

Answer 4

plant cells are just like our human blood cells

what they do is help the plant grow and try to fight off germs

so giving it less water will mean more sunlight whitch is bad

because that's to much sunlight giving it to much water

will just bascially kill the plant

Answer 5

To put it simply, plant cells have walls. These walls burst if there is too much water. If there is too little water, the cytoplasm can't exchange potassium and sodium ions, and the cells die.