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Movement of substances - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Less solute and more water molecules
        
        Higher water potential
    - - More solute and less water molecules
        
        Lower water potential
- - - - Water enters the cell where it would expand and swell up eventually bursting due to the absence of cell walls
    - - Water enters the cell where its vacuole increases in size and pushes the cells content against the cellulose cell wall
        
        Exerts turgor pressure preventing the cell from bursting
        
        Swells and becomes turgid
  - - - Water moves out from the cells where it would shrink in size to form spikes
        
        This process is called crenation
    - - Water moves out from the cells where the vacuole decreases in size
        
        Cytoplasm and cell membrane shrinks away from the cellulose cell walls which decreases the size and becomes flaccid
        
        This process is called plasmolysis