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What describes the movement of water when a cell shrinks and shrivels due to osmosis

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plasmolysis in plant cells and haemolysis in animal cells

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When the outside environment of a cell is hypertonic, water molecules tend to move from the cell. This is a movement from a highly concentrated area to a lowly concentrated area. The cells will shrink and shrivel. The movement of water moleculea from a high concentrated region to a low concentrated region is called osmosis.

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That is called plasmolysis

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