Membrane structure and function

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Celery stalks that are immersed in fresh water for several hours become stiff and hard. Similar stalksleft in a 0.15 M salt solution become limp and soft. From this we can deduce that the cells of thecelery stalks are

hypertonic to fresh water but hypotonic to the salt solution.

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