When a plant cell is placed in **isotonic** solution:

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C. No net movement of water — cell stays unchanged

Isotonic = equal solute concentration inside and outside
⇒ no net water movement, no change in cell shape.
(Plant cells, unlike animal cells, don't burst even in hypotonic solution — cell wall prevents lysis.)

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Cell shrinks (plasmolysis)

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Cell swells and bursts

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Water moves into the vacuole only

When a plant cell is placed in isotonic solution:

Keep practising Unit 2G: Osmoregulation & Membrane Dynamics