If you want to create crispier lettuce for your salad should you soak your lettuce leaves in a hypotonic solution.
Placing plant and animal cells into a hypotonic solution will result in a net influx of water across the plasma membrane. As a result, the cell increases in size. The animal cell may eventually explode, however, the cell wall of plant cells prevents such a scenario from occurring in plant cells.
Osmosis is the movement of water (solvent) across a semi permeable membrane. The tonicity of a solution (hypo, hyper, or iso) determine the direction of water travel. In general, water travels from a hypotonic solution to a hypertonic solution.
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